[PDF] The Cape Of Good Hope eBook

Author : Malcolm Jack
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1684480000

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Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Adolphe Linder
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 9783905141665

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History of Swiss emigration to South Africa, together with genealogies of immigrant descendants.

Author : Carla Liesching
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
ISBN : 9781913620424

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In 'Good Hope', Carla Liesching constructs a fragmented visual and textual assemblage that orbits around the gardens and grounds at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ? a historic location at the height of Empire, now an epicenter for anti-colonial resistance movements, and also the place of the artist?s birth. Named by the Portuguese in their ?Age of Discovery?, the Cape?s position at the mid-point along the ?Spice Route? was viewed with great optimism for its potential to open up a valuable maritime passageway. The ?refreshment station? later established there set into motion flows of capital from ?east? to ?west?. Good Hope brings together cumulative layers of documentary prose, personal essay, and found photographic material, along with sources ranging from apartheid-era trade journals, tourist pamphlets, and National Geographic and Life magazines, to contemporary newspapers and family albums. It offers both an intimate and critical examination of White supremacist settler-colonialism in the present, and a questioning of the ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking, discovering, collecting, codifying, preserving, naming, knowing, and putting to language

Author : Karel Schoeman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781869197490

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The available information on Cape slavery during the eighteenth century is placed in the wider context of Dutch colonial society during this period