Grappling with the beast [[electronic resource] ] : Indigenous southern African responses to colonialism, 1840-1930 / / edited by Peter Limb, Norman Etherington, Peter Midgley

• Pubblicazione: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.6809/034
• Soggetto topico: Indigenous peoples - Africa, Southern
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Southern Colonization; Africa, Southern Colonial influence; Great Britain Colonies Africa History; Germany Colonies Africa History
• Altri autori: LimbPeter EtheringtonNorman MidgleyPeter <1943->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Indigenous southern Africans and colonialism : introduction / Norman Etherington -- Reactions to colonialism in southern Africa : some historiographical reflections / Chris Saunders -- Fenders of space : Kgatla territorial expansion under Boer and British rule, 1840-1920 / Fred Morton -- Intermediaries of class, nation, and gender in the African response to colonialism in South Africa, 1890s-1920s / Peter Limb -- Pastoral modernity, territoriality and colonial transformations in central Namibia, 1860s-1904 / Dag Henrichsen -- Social and political responses to colonialism on the margins : community, chieftaincy and ethnicity in Bulilima-Mangwe, Zimbabwe, 1890-1930 / Enocent Msindo -- 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.) -- Renaissance men : Ntsikana, A.C. Jordan, S.E.K. Mqhayi and South Africa's cultural awakening / Peter Midgley -- African intellectual and literary responses to colonial modernity in South Africa / Ntongela Masilela -- 'Then came the whiteman' : an African poet and polemicist on the fateful encounter / Grant Christison -- World visions : 'native missionaries,' mission networks and critiques of colonialism in nineteenth-century South Africa and Canada / Tolly Bradford.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Grappling with the beast
• ISBN: 1-282-95074-6; 9786612950742; 90-474-4112-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785406303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European expansion and indigenous response ; ; v. 6.