Grappling with the Beast

Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2010
• Englisch, Tswana-Sprache
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9789004178779
• ISBN-10: 9004178775
• Artikelnr.: 27430933

Autorenporträt

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: The 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.