The gun in central Africa
: a history of technology and politics
Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and other turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa. Marrying the insights of Africanist historiograp...
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Détails bibliographiques
| Auteur principal : |
Macola Giacomo
(Auteur) |
| Format : |
Livre |
| Langue : |
anglais |
| Titre complet : |
The gun in central Africa : a history of technology and politics / Giacomo Macola |
| Publié : |
Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press
, [2016]
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| Description matérielle : |
1 vol.( xv, 249 p.) |
| Collection : |
New African histories series
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| Contenu : |
Firearms and the history of technology in Africa. Power and international trade in the savanna. The domestication of the musket on the Upper Zambezi. The warlord's muskets : the political economy of Garenganze. Gun societies undone? The effects of British and Belgian rule. "They disdain firearms" : the relationship between guns and the Ngoni. Of "martial races" and guns : the politics of honor to the early twentieth century. Conclusion: gun domestication in historical perspective |
| Sujets : |
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