The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840.
- Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (646 pages)
Description based upon print version of record. Lord Charles and the settlers
Includes bibliographies and index.
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; Conclusion; 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; Conclusion; 8 The Northern Frontier to c. 1840: The rise and decline of the Griqua people; Introduction 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; Conclusion; 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; Conclusion; 10 The British and the Cape, 1814-1834
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.
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