Grappling With the Beast

by Limb, Peter; Etherington, Norman; Midgley, Peter

• ISBN13: 9789004178779
• ISBN10: 9004178775
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-28
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

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.

Author Biography

Peter Limb (Ph D.,W Aust. 1997) is Associate Professor, History, Michigan State University. His books include Nelson Mandela (2008), Orb Sceptre: Studies in British Imperialism and its Legacies (2008), The ANC's Early Years and A. B. Xuma: Autobiography and Correspondence. Norman Etherington (Ph.D., Yale 1971) is Professor, History, University of Western Australia. Recent publications include Missions and Empire (Oxford History of British Empire Companion Series) (2005) and The Great Treks: Tlie Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854 (2001). Peter Midgley (Ph.D.,Alberta 2006) is Senior Editor, University of Alberta Press. Books include Sol Plaatje: An Introduction (1997) and a critical edition of The Diary of Iris Vaughan (2004), co-edited with Peter Alexander.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
List of Maps	p. xiii
Indigenous Southern Africans and Colonialism: Introduction	p. 1
African Political, Social and Spatial Responses: Historical Perspectives
Reactions to Colonialism in Southern Africa: Some Historiographical Reflections	p. 13
Fenders of Space: Kgatla Territorial Expansion under Boer and British Rule, 1840-1920	p. 21
Intermediaries of Class, Nation, and Gender in the African Response to Colonialism in South Africa, 1890s-1920s	p. 47
Pastoral Modernity, Territoriality and Colonial Transformations in Central Namibia, 1860s-1904	p. 87
Social and Political Responses to Colonialism on the Margins: Community, Chieftaincy and Ethnicity in Bulilima-Mangwe, Zimbabwe, 1890-1930	p. 115
Conflict and Negotiation along the Lower Vaal River: Correspondence from the Tswana-Language Newspaper Mokaeri oa Becuana	p. 157
African Literary, Cultural, Intellectual and Religious Responses
Renaissance Men: Ntsikana, A. C. Jordan, S. E. K. Mqhayi and South Africa's Cultural Awakening	p. 215
African Intellectual and Literary Responses to Colonial Modernity in South Africa	p. 245
ôThen Came the Whitemanö: An African Poet and Polemicist on the Fateful Encounter	p. 277
World Visions: 'Native Missionaries,' Mission Networks and Critiques of Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Canada	p. 311
Bibliography	p. 341
Index	p. 359
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