Grappling with the Beast.

Volume 6 in the series 'European Expansion and Indigenous Response'. 8vo; laminated pictorial boards; pp. xi + (iii) + 377 + (i), incl. index. Light bump to tail of spine. Near-fine condition.

"This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to 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 '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."