Knowledge and colonialism eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Atlantic world,
v. 18 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10372666 |
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 Franπcois 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.