Knowledge and colonialism : : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa / / by Siegfried Huigen.
The establishment of a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century and an expansion of the sphere of colonial influence in the eighteenth century made South Africa the only part of sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans could travel with relative ease deep into the interior. As a resu...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Atlantic world, v. 18 |
|---|---|
| : | |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 18. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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.