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Guns and society in colonial Nigeria : firearms, culture, and public order
- Title
- Guns and society in colonial Nigeria : firearms, culture, and public order / Saheed Aderinto.
- Author
- Aderinto, Saheed
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Firearms > Political aspects
- Firearms > Social aspects
- Firearms ownership
- Gun control
- Black author
- Nigeria > Colonial influence
- Firearms > Political aspects > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Social conditions
- 1900-1999
- Firearms > Social aspects > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Nigeria > Social conditions > 20th century
- Colonial influence
- Firearms ownership > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- Gun control > Nigeria > History > 20th century
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-1031
- ISBN
- 9780253031600
- 0253031605
- 9780253031617
- 0253031613
- LCCN
- 2017015151
- OCLC
- 981162505
- Author
- Aderinto, Saheed, author.
- Title
- Guns and society in colonial Nigeria : firearms, culture, and public order / Saheed Aderinto.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-1031