Author: Peter KolbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Peter KolbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Peter KolbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Knowledge and Colonialism
Author: Siegfried HuigenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004177434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The establishment of a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth century and an expansion of the sphere of colonial influence in the eighteenth century made South Africa the only part of sub-Saharan Africa where Europeans could travel with relative ease deep into the interior. As a result individuals with scientific interests in Africa came to the Cape. This book examines writings and drawings of scientifically educated travellers, particularly in the field of ethnography, against the background of commercial and administrative discourses on the Cape. It is argued that the scientific travellers benefited more from their relationship with the colonial order than the other way around.
The Present State of the Cape of Good-Hope:
Author: Peter KolbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Let This Voice Be Heard
Author: Maurice JacksonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker antislavery community. In transforming Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based transatlantic movement, Benezet translated ideas from diverse sources—Enlightenment philosophy, African travel narratives, Quakerism, practical life, and the Bible—into concrete action. He founded the African Free School in Philadelphia, and such future abolitionist leaders as Absalom Jones and James Forten studied at Benezet's school and spread his ideas to broad social groups. At the same time, Benezet's correspondents, including Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Abbé Raynal, Granville Sharp, and John Wesley, gave his ideas an audience in the highest intellectual and political circles. In this wide-ranging intellectual biography, Maurice Jackson demonstrates how Benezet mediated Enlightenment political and social thought, narratives of African life written by slave traders themselves, and the ideas and experiences of ordinary people to create a new antislavery critique. Benezet's use of travel narratives challenged proslavery arguments about an undifferentiated, "primitive" African society. Benezet's empirical evidence, laid on the intellectual scaffolding provided by the writings of Hutcheson, Wallace, and Montesquieu, had a profound influence, from the high-culture writings of the Marquis de Condorcet to the opinions of ordinary citizens. When the great antislavery spokesmen Jacques-Pierre Brissot in France and William Wilberforce in England rose to demand abolition of the slave trade, they read into the record of the French National Assembly and the British Parliament extensive unattributed quotations from Benezet's writings, a fitting tribute to the influence of his work.
Historical Archaeology in South Africa
Author: Carmel SchrirePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135156370X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The corpus provides a rich picture of life and times at this distant outpost of an immense Dutch seaborne empire during the contact period. Representing over three decades of excavation, conservation, and analysis, the book examines ceramics, glass, metal, and other categories of artifacts in their archaeological contexts. An enclosed CD includes a video reconstruction plus a comprehensive catalog and color illustrations of the artifacts in the corpus. The parallels and contrasts this volume reveals will help scholars studying the European expansion period to build a richer comparative picture of colonial material culture.
History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Alexander WilmotHistory of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. From its discovery to the year 1819 by A. Wilmot, Esq. From 1820 to 1868 by the Hon. J. C. Chase
Author: Alexander WILMOT (Hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description