Knowledge and colonialism [electronic resource] : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa / by Siegfried Huigen.
Series: Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 18.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: xii, 273 p., [39] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)Subject(s):- Travelers -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century
- Europeans -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century
- Ethnology -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century
- Ethnological expeditions -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel -- Sources
- South Africa -- History -- To 1836
- South Africa -- Colonial influence
- South Africa -- Description and travel
- South Africa -- Description and travel -- Sources
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- DT2020 .H85 2009eb
- 15.59
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Fran�cois 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.
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