Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa

by William Kelleher Storey

• ISBN13: 9780521885096
• ISBN10: 0521885094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this book, William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth 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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Guns in Colonial South African History	p. 1
Early Colonialism and Guns at the Cape up to 1795	p. 17
Guns, Conflict, and Political Culture along the Eastern Frontier, 1795-1840	p. 48
Hunting, Warfare, and Guns along the Northern Frontier, 1795-1868	p. 78
Capitalism, Race, and Breechloaders, 1840-80	p. 118
Guns and the Langalibalele Affair, 1873-5	p. 144
Guns and Confederation, 1875-6	p. 182
Risk, Skill, and Citizenship in the Eastern Cape, 1876-9	p. 210
Guns, Empire, and Political Culture in Basutoland, 1867-78	p. 253
The Origins of the Cape Sotho Gun War, 1879-80	p. 287
Conclusion	p. 319
Bibliography	p. 340
Index	p. 367
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