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Introduction: New Perspectives on Firearms in the Age of Empire / Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola and David Welch
Part 1. Adopting Guns : Environment, Class and Gender on the Imperial Frontier
Guns, Violence and Identity on the Trans-Appalachian American Frontier / Matthew C. Ward
Guns, Masculinity and Marksmanship : Codes of Killing and Conservation in the Nineteenth-Century American West / Karen Jones
Fishers of Men and Hunters of Lion : British Missionaries and Big Game Hunting in Colonial Africa / Jason Bruner
Cockney Sportsmen? : Recreational Shooting in London and beyond, 1800-1870 / Matthew Cragoe
Part 2. Resisting Guns : Edged Weapons and the Politics of Indigenous Honour
"They Disdain Firearms" : The Relationship between Guns and the Ngoni of Eastern Zambia to the Early Twentieth Century / Giacomo Macola
"Hardly a Place for a Nervous Old Gentleman to Take a Stroll" : Firearms and the Zulu during the Anglo-Zulu War / Jack Hogan
Steel and Blood : For a Cultural History of Edged Weapons between the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century / Gianluca Pastori
Part 3. Controlling Guns : Gun Laws, Race and Citizenship
The Battle of Dubai : Firearms on Britain's Arabian Frontier, 1906-1915 / Simon Ball
"Give Him a Gun, NOW" : Soldiers but not quite Soldiers in South Africa's Second World War, 1939-1945 / Bill Nasson
"Better Die Fighting against Injustice than to Die like a Dog" : African-Americans and Guns, 1866-1941 / Kevin Yuill
Part 4. Celebrating Guns : Firearms in Popular and Military Cultures
Retrospective Icon : The Martini-Henry / Ian F.W. Beckett
"The Shooting of the Boers Was Extraordinary" : British Views of Boer Marksmanship in the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 / Spencer Jones
Irish Paramilitarism and Gun Cultures, 1910-1921 / Timothy Bowman.
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A cultural history of firearms in the age of empire. ISBN 9781472402264. Published by Ashgate in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.