Grappling with the beast indigenous southern African responses to colonialism, 1840-1930

Limb, Peter. (Added Author). Etherington, Norman. (Added Author). Midgley, Peter, 1943- (Added Author).

Summary: This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces.

Record details

ISBN: 9789047441120 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9047441125 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789004178779
ISBN: 9004178775
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 377 p.) : maps.
Publisher: Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Language Note:	Contains passages in Tswana with English translations.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.