Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa / / by Siegfried Huigen.

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Superior document:Atlantic world, v. 18
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 18.
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Physical Description:xii, 273 p., [39] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
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Table of Contents:
  • Wagon routes : an introduction
  • Peter Kolb's Defence of the "Hottentots" (1719)
  • Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd : the voc and the geography of Southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century
  • Trade and science : reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1761-1762
  • Xhosa and Khoikhoi "households" : representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon atlas
  • The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa : the travel accounts of Francois le Vaillant
  • A 'Black legend' of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow
  • Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa
  • The first ethnographic monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti
  • Conclusion: Knowledge and colonialism
  • Annex 1: Independent editions and translations of Peter Kolb's Capvt bonae spei hodiernvm in the eighteenth century
  • Annex 2: Structure of the Nieuwste en beknopte beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hope.