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The First forty years / being the memoirs of H.H. Morris, K.C.
Henry Harris Morris 1878-
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The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840. [electronic resource]
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History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. It is the only book devoted to the first 200 years of that nation's history based on recent research.This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists - primarily the Dutch - merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegat
| Title |
The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840. [electronic resource] / edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee contributors, James C. Armstrong ... [et al.]. |
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| Edition |
Second edition, first Wesleyan edition. |
| Publisher |
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press |
| Creation Date |
1989 |
| Notes |
Includes index. "A substantial revision and extension of The Shaping of South African society, 1652-1820, published in 1979"--Pref. Bibliography: p. [571]-588. English |
| Content |
Cover The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840 Title Copyright Dedication Contents Figures Tables Contributors Abbreviations Conventions, terminology and units of currency Preface Introduction PART I THE CAPE POPULATION 1 The Khoisan to 1828 The Khoisan: Khoikhoi and 'Bushmen' Frontiers of trade and agrarian settlement, c. 1590-1672 Frontiers of trade and agrarian settlement, 1672-1701 The breakdown of the Western Cape Khoikhoi before 1720 The Khoisan and the trekboer frontier, 1720-1800 The Khoisan workforce on European farms, 1720-1803 Khoisan subservience mitigated and confirmed, c. 1790 to 1819An attempt at emancipation, c. 1820-1828 Conclusion 2 Freehold farmers and frontier settlers, 1657-1780 The failure of intensive agriculture, 1652-1679 The southwestern Cape, 1679-1780 Frontier settlement, 1703-1780 Frontiers of exclusion and inclusion Conclusion 3 The slaves, 1652-1834 The slave trade and the origins of the Cape slaves The Company slaves The colonists' slaves Slavery and the economy The slave experience Control and response The ending of slavery 4 Intergroup relations: Khoikhoi, settlers, slaves and free blacks, 1652-1795Religion Miscegenation and intermarriage Manumission The free blacks Changes in culture PART II THE CAPE ECONOMY 5 The Cape of Good Hope and the world economy, 1652-1835 The VOC and the economy Production The market for Cape products Imports Currency, credit and banking The structure of commerce The world economy and the structure of Cape society PART III GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY 6 Company and colonists at the Cape, 1652-1795 The Heren XVII and their subordinates The Cape in the VOC system The Company's personnelThe freeburghers at the Cape The struggle against Willem Adriaan van der Stel The Barbier Rebellion The Cape Patriot movement Conclusion: The framework of conflict 7 The Cape under the transitional governments, 1795-1814 The transitional years, 1795-1814: An introduction Economic policy and economic change at the Cape Masters, servants and slaves The coming of the missionary Ruler and ruled at the Cape 8 The Northern Frontier to c. 1840: The rise and decline of the Griqua people The indigenous communities: Bantu-speakers and KhoisanTrading, hunting and raiding Land claims and territorial rights Missionaries and the Griqua state, 1800-1814 Missionaries and central Transorangia, 1814-1820 Griqua state-building, 1820-1830 The Sotho-Tswana in the frontier zone before 1830 Transorangia in the 1830s 9 The Eastern Frontier, 1770-1812 The Eastern Frontier and its inhabitants The open frontier: Its characteristics The open frontier, 1770-1793 The frontier crisis, 1793-1812 The closing of the frontier 10 The British and the Cape, 1814-1834 Lord Charles and the settlers |
| Extent |
1 online resource (646 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©1988 |
| National Library system number |
997010716667505171 |
MARC RECORDS
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