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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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]
Description matérielle : 1 vol.( xv, 249 p.)
Collection : New African histories series
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
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330 |a 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 historiography with those of consumption and science and technology studies, Giacomo Macola approaches the subject from a culturally sensitive perspective that encompasses both the practical and the symbolic attributes of firearms. Informed by the view that the power of objects extends beyond their immediate service functions, The Gun in Central Africa presents Africans as agents of technological re-innovation who understood guns in terms of their changing social structure and political interests. By placing firearms at the heart of the analysis, this volume casts new light on processes of state formation and military revolution in the era of the long-distance trade, the workings of central African gender identities and honor cultures, and the politics of the colonial encounter. -- from back cover 
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