| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) |
| Contents |
Chronology -- Ancient and mythical place -- Adamastor's reign -- Paradise lost -- Enlightenment visitors -- Ennobling the savage -- Paradise regained -- A call for freedom |
| Summary |
"Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travelers 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 focusses 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Electronic version record |
| Subject |
Europeans -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History
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Khoisan (African people)
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Europeans
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Khoisan (African people)
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019883
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Cape Town (South Africa) -- History
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South Africa -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
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| Subject |
South Africa
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South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
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South Africa -- Cape Town
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bucknell University Press.
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| ISBN |
9781684480043 |
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1684480043 |
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