Title The gun in central Africa : a history of technology and politics / Giacomo Macola.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	New African histories
	New African histories series.
Contents	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index.
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Subject	Firearms -- Africa, Central -- History.
	Firearms.
	Central Africa.
	History.
	Firearms -- Social aspects -- Africa, Central -- History.
	Firearms -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Macola, Giacomo. Gun in central Africa 9780821422113 (DLC) 2015046077 (OCoLC)931226922
ISBN	9780821445556 (electronic book)
	0821445553 (electronic book)
	9780821422113
	0821422111
	9780821422120
	082142212X
	0821445553