Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa / by Siegfried Huigen.
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Huigen, Siegfried.
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Knowledge and colonialism : eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa / by Siegfried Huigen.
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Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description
xii, 273 pages, 39 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series
Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 18.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
ISBN
9789004177437 hardback alkaline paper
9004177434 hardback alkaline paper
9004177434 hardback alkaline paper
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