Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa write by William Kelleher Storey. This book was released on 2012-03-29. Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa
The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa write by Robert Ross. This book was released on 2014. The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement, which was located on the border between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement created a fertile landscape in the valley and developed a political theology of great political and racial importance to the evolution of the Cape and of South Africa as a whole.
The Gun in Central Africa
The Gun in Central Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gun in Central Africa write by Giacomo Macola. This book was released on 2016-04-25. The Gun in Central Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa. Marrying the insights of Africanist historiography with those of consumption and science and technology studies, Giacomo Macola approaches the subject from a culturally sensitive perspective that encompasses both the practical and the symbolic attributes of firearms. Informed by the view that the power of objects extends beyond their immediate service functions, The Gun in Central Africa presents Africans as agents of technological re-innovation who understood guns in terms of their changing social structures and political interests. By placing firearms at the heart of the analysis, this volume casts new light on processes of state formation and military revolution in the era of the long-distance trade, the workings of central African gender identities and honor cultures, and the politics of the colonial encounter.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies write by Jared Diamond. This book was released on 1999-04-17. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."—Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal.
Conquest
Conquest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conquest write by David Day. This book was released on 2008-03-27. Conquest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The history of the world has been the history of peoples on the move, as they occupy new lands and establish their claims over them. Almost invariably, this has meant the violent dispossession of the previous inhabitants. David Day tells the story of how this happened - the ways in which invaders have triumphed and justified conquest which, as he shows, is a bloody and often prolonged process that can last centuries."--
