Grappling with the beast
Subtitle: indigenous southern African responses to colonialism, 1840-1930
By: edited by Peter Limb, Norman Etherington, Peter Midgley.
Contributors: Limb, Peter.; Etherington, Norman.; Midgley, Peter, 1943-
Series: European expansion and indigenous response -- v. 6
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; tsn
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9789004178779
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Southern; Africa, Southern -- Colonization; Africa, Southern -- Colonial influences; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- History; Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
Description: "This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces. Contributors include distinguished global scholars in the field as well as exciting young scholars. The essays link global-national-local forces in history by analysing how indigenous elites not only interacted with colonial empires to absorb, adapt and re-cast new ideas, forms of discourse, and social formations, but also networked with “ordinary” people to forge new social, ethnic, and political identities and viable social forces. Translated and other primary texts in appendices add to the insights."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Indigenous Southern Africans and colonialism : introduction / Norman; title: Reactions to colonialism in Southern Africa : some historiographical reflections / Chris Saunders; title: Fenders of space : Kgatla territorial expansion under Boer and British rule, 1840-1920 /   Fred Morton; title: Intermediaries of class, nation, and gender in the African response to colonialism in South Africa, 1890s-1920s / Peter Limb; title: Pastoral modernity, territoriality and colonial transformations in central Namibia, 1860s to 1904 / Dag Henrichsen; title: Social and political responses to colonialism on the margins : community, chieftaincy and ethnicity in Bulilima-Mangwe, Zimbabwe, 1890-1930 / Enocent Msindo; title: Conflict and negotiation along the lower Vaal River : correspondence from the Tswana-language newspaper Mokaeri oa Becuana / Stephen C. Volz and Part T. Mgadla (eds. and trans.); title: Renaissance men : Ntsikana, A.C. Jordan, S.E.K. Mqhayi and South Africa's cultural awakening / Peter Midgley; title: African intellectual and literary responses to colonial modernity in South Africa / Ntongela Masilela; title: 'Then came the whiteman' : an African poet and polemicist on the fateful encounter / Grant Christison; title: World visions : 'native missionaries,' mission networks and critiques of colonialism in nineteenth-century South Africa and Canada / Tolly Bradford.