{"id":236,"date":"2016-02-03T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T10:07:58","slug":"the-gun-in-central-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/2016\/02\/03\/the-gun-in-central-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gun in Central Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/06\/untitled-225x300.png\" alt=\"Small man with a big gun\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/06\/untitled-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/files\/2015\/06\/untitled.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Giacomo Macola&#8217;s monograph, <em>The Gun in Central Africa<\/em> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/2016\/02\/03\/the-gun-in-central-africa\/\">available to pre-order<\/a> with a <strong>30% discount<\/strong> on regular prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Informed by the view that the power of objects extends beyond\u00a0their immediate service functions, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjfv4Gc5tvKAhVC8Q4KHZo4DqcQFggfMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohioswallow.com%2Fbook%2FThe%2BGun%2Bin%2BCentral%2BAfrica&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4AdXBOhZidXKodc2ZpXedAIvsdA&amp;sig2=kTKF0jhH6M8s4HaUGr2OYQ&amp;bvm=bv.113034660,d.ZWU\">The Gun in Central Africa<\/a><\/em>\u00a0presents Africans as agents of technological re-innovation who\u00a0understood guns in terms of their changing social structures and\u00a0political interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By placing firearms at the heart of the analysis,\u00a0this volume casts new light on processes of state formation and\u00a0military revolution in the era of the long-distance trade, the\u00a0workings of central African gender identities and honor cultures,\u00a0and the politics of the colonial encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giacomo Macola&#8217;s monograph, The Gun in Central Africa is now available to pre-order with a 30% discount on regular prices. Informed by the view that the power of objects extends beyond\u00a0their immediate service functions, The Gun in Central Africa\u00a0presents Africans as agents of technological re-innovation who\u00a0understood guns in terms of their changing social structures and\u00a0political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40660,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5078],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/colonialisms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}