Guns, Race, and Skill in South Africa up to 1867

FAIN: FT-52947-04

William Storey
Millsaps College (Jackson, MS 39210-0002)

"Guns, Race, and Skill in South Africa up to 1867" is the first chapter in a book entititled: Black Guns and White Power: Disarmament and British Rule in South Africa. The book examines the transfer of guns and shooting skills across cultural and ecological boundaries in nineteenth-century South Africa, focusing on the ways in which Europeans and Africans represented the risks of skills with guns. Debates about guns and disarmament were closely bound up with debates about who was to be a citizen and who was to be a subject.

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Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa (Book)
Title: Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa
Author: William Kelleher Storey
Abstract: In this book, William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa. Relying mainly on materials held in archives and libraries in Britain and South Africa, Storey explains the workings of the gun trade and the technological development of the firearms. He relates the history of firearms to ecological, political, and social changes, showing that there is a close relationship between technology and politics in South Africa.
Year: 2008
Primary URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6650121/?site_locale=en_US
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781107403963

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