ISBN:
978-0-253-03160-0
,
978-0-253-03161-7
,
0-253-03161-3
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 300 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen.
Parallel Title:
Online version Aderinto, Saheed Guns and society in colonial Nigeria
DDC:
363.33096690904
Keywords:
Nigeria / Social conditions / 20th century
;
Nigeria / Colonial influence
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Nigeria
;
1900-1999
;
Geschichte 1880-1950
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Firearms / Social aspects / Nigeria / History / 20th century
;
Firearms / Political aspects / Nigeria / History / 20th century
;
Gun control / Nigeria / History / 20th century
;
Firearms ownership / Nigeria / History / 20th century
;
Colonial influence
;
Firearms ownership
;
Firearms / Political aspects
;
Firearms / Social aspects
;
Gun control
;
Social conditions
;
Feuerwaffe.
;
Gesellschaft.
;
Nigeria.
;
History
;
Feuerwaffe
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1880-1950
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Firearms in twentieth-century colonial Africa -- "This destructive implement of European ingenuity": firearms, the Atlantic world, and technology transfer in precolonial Nigeria -- All firearms are not made equal: colonialism, social class, and the emergence of a Nigerian gun society -- "A Dane gun is useless without gunpowder": the political economy of Nigeria's most popular explosive -- "All Europeans in this country should be able to fire a rifle": race, leisure shooting, and the lethal symbol of imperial domination -- "Bread and bullet": guns, imperial atrocity, and public disorder -- A fearful weapon: violent crime and gun accidents in everyday Nigeria -- "You are to be robbed of your guns": firearms regulation and the politics of rights and privilege -- Epilogue: Guns and the crisis of development in postcolonial Nigeria
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