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Book Jan Paerl  a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society  1761 1851

Download or read book Jan Paerl a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society 1761 1851 written by Russel Stafford Viljoen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography of the Khoikhoi Jan Paerl (1761-1851) light is being shed on a new form of resistance against colonial domination in Cape society. It emphasizes Khoikhoi colonial encounters and incorporates themes such as millenarian beliefs, identities, master-servant relations, indentured labour and the appropriation of mission Christianity.

Book Khoikhoi  Microhistory  and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope

Download or read book Khoikhoi Microhistory and Colonial Characters at the Cape of Good Hope written by Russel Viljoen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microhistory unlocked new avenues of historical investigation and methodologies and helped uncover the past of individuals, an event, or a small community. Reclamation of “lost histories” of individuals and colonized communities of colonial South Africa falls within this category. This study provides historical narratives of indigenous Khoikhoi of modest status absorbed into Cape colonial society as farm servants during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based on archival and other sources, the author illuminates the “everyday life” and “lived experience” of Khoikhoi characters in a unique way. The opening chapter recounts the love-loathe drama between a Khoikhoi woman, Griet, and Hendrik Eksteen, whose murder she later orchestrated with the aid of slaves and Khoikhoi servants. The malcontent Andries De Necker, arrested for the murder of his Khoikhoi servant, attracted much legal attention and resulted in a protracted trial. The book next features the Khoikhoi millenarian prophet-turned-Christian convert Jan Paerl, who persuaded believers to reassert the land of their birth and liberate themselves from Dutch colonial rule by October 25, 1788. The last two chapters examine the lives of four Khoikhoi converts immersed into the Moravian missionary world and how they were exhibited by missionaries and sketched by the colonial artist, George F. Angas.

Book The Cambridge Modern History

Download or read book The Cambridge Modern History written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge History of Africa

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period covered in this volume begins with the emergence of anti-slave trade attitudes in Europe, and ends on the eve of European colonial conquest.

Book Envisioning the Worst

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Evi Merians
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780874137385
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Envisioning the Worst written by Linda Evi Merians and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing all the pre-colonial representations of "Hottentots" and "Hottentotism" operative in early-modern England allows us to see the birth and the development of a prejudice that became central to the nation. In their constructions of "Hottentots" the English found a way to vent their own fear, anger, and conflict about themselves and their society, particularly as they were transforming and redefining their nation as imperial Great Britain. The very invention of the "Hottentots" shows that the English needed to envision a worst people in order to imagine themselves as the world's most advanced people."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Social World of Batavia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Gelman Taylor
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2004-12
  • ISBN : 9780299094744
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Social World of Batavia written by Jean Gelman Taylor and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. In this pioneering study, Jean Gelman Taylor offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia's extraordinary social world--its marriage patterns, religious and social organizations, economic interests, and sexual roles. With an emphasis on the urban ruling elite, she argues that Europeans and Asians alike were profoundly altered by their merging, resulting in a distinctive hybrid, Indo-Dutch culture. Original in its focus on gender and use of varied sources--travelers' accounts, newspapers, legal codes, genealogical data, photograph albums, paintings, and ceramics--The Social World of Batavia, first published in 1983, forged new paths in the study of colonial society.

Book Women Writing Home  1700 1920

Download or read book Women Writing Home 1700 1920 written by Susan Clair Imbarrato and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 2171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembles a range of women's letters from the former British Empire. These letters 'written home' are not only historical sources; they are also representations of the state of the Empire in far-off lands sent home to Britain and, occasionally, other centres established as 'home'.

Book The South African Bookman

Download or read book The South African Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conservatism and the Quarterly Review

Download or read book Conservatism and the Quarterly Review written by Jonathan Cutmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its time, the Quarterly Review was thought to closely reflect government policy, however, the essays in this volume reveal that it was inconsistent in its support of government positions and reflected disagreement over a broad range of religious, economic and political issues.

Book The American Catalogue

Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American national trade bibliography.

Book Luzac s Oriental List and Book Review

Download or read book Luzac s Oriental List and Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Class List

Download or read book Class List written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Taste of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lizzie Collingham
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 0465093175
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book The Taste of Empire written by Lizzie Collingham and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.