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Author Huigen, Siegfried.

Title Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa / by Siegfried Huigen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages, 39 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Atlantic world, 1570-0542 ; v. 18
Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 18.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 François 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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Subject Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel -- Sources.
Travelers -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- 18th century.
Travelers.
South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Europeans -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century.
Europeans.
History.
Ethnology -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century.
Ethnology.
Ethnological expeditions -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century.
Ethnological expeditions.
South Africa -- History -- To 1836.
South Africa.
Chronological Term To 1836
Subject South Africa -- Colonial influence.
Colonial influence.
South Africa -- Description and travel.
South Africa -- Description and travel -- Sources.
Genre/Form Sources.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1700-1800
Genre/Form Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Huigen, Siegfried. Knowledge and colonialism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004177437 (DLC) 2009017888 (OCoLC)318867168
ISBN 9789047430872 (electronic book)
9047430875 (electronic book)
9789004177437 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004177434 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004177437.i-314

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