Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa

Klappentext This book recounts the spread of firearms in South Africa during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung In this book! William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the seventeenth! eighteenth! and nineteenth centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Guns in colonial South African history; 2. Early colonialism and guns at the Cape up to 1795; 3. Guns, conflict, and political culture along the Eastern Frontier, 1795-1840; 4. Hunting, warfare, and guns along the Northern Frontier, 1795-1868; 5. Capitalism, race, and breechloaders, 1840-80; 6. Guns and the Langalibalele Affair, 1873-5; 7. Guns and confederation, 1875-6; 8. Risk, skill, and citizenship in the Eastern Cape, 1876-9.

Product details

• Authors: William Kelleher Storey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107403963
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40396-3
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: African Studies; African Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore