Contents: Introduction: new perspectives on firearms in the age of empire, Karen Jones, Giacomo Macola and David Welch; Part I Adopting Guns: Environment, Class and Gender on the Imperial Frontier: Guns, violence and identity on the trans-Appalchian American frontier, Matthew C. Ward; Guns, masculinity and marksmanship: codes of killing and conservation in the 19th-century American West, Karen Jones; Fishers of men and hunters of lion: British missionaries and big game hunting in colonial Africa, Jason Bruner; Cockney sportsmen? Recreational shooting in London and beyond, 1800-1870, Matthew Cragoe. Part II Resisting Guns: Edged Weapons and the Politics of Indigenous Honour: 'They disdain firearms': the relationship between guns and the Ngoni of eastern Zambia to the early 20th century, Giacomo Macola; 'Hardly a place for a nervous old gentleman to take a stroll'; firearms and the Zulu during the Anglo-Zulu War, Jack Hogan; Steel and blood: for a cultural history of edged weapons between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, Gianluca Pastori. Part III Controlling Guns: Gun Laws, Race and Citizenship: The battle of Dubai: firearms on Britain's Arabian frontier, 1906-1915, Simon Ball; 'Give him a gun, NOW': soldiers but not quite soldiers in South Africa's Second World War, 1939-1945, Bill Nasson; 'Better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog': African-Americans and guns, 1866-1941, Kevin Yuill. Part IV Celebrating Guns: Firearms in Popular and Military Cultures: Retrospective icon: the Martini-Henry, Ian F.W. Beckett; 'The shooting of the Boers was extraordinary': British views of Boer marksmanship in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Spencer Jones; Irish paramilitarism and gun cultures, 1910-1921, Timothy Bowman; Bibliography; Index.