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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | Grappling with the beast: indigenous Southern African responses to colonialism, 1840-1930 |
Editors: | Limb, Peter Etherington, Norman |
Year: | 2010 |
Volume: | 6 |
Pages: | 377 |
Language: | English |
Series: | European expansion and indigenous response (ISSN 1873-8974) |
City of publisher: | Leiden |
Publisher: | Brill |
ISBN: | 9789004178779 |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | colonization colonialism cultural change social history |
Abstract: | The essays collected in this volume examine 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. The essays link global, national, and local forces in history by analysing how the indigenous elite 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 identities and social forces. Contributions: 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); 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). [ASC Leiden abstract] |