Description Of The Cape Of Good Hope With The Matters Concerning It By Francois Valentyn Edited And Annotated By P Serton R Raven Hart Wj De Kock Final Editor
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Author | : François Valentijn |
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Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
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Author | : François Valentijn |
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Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
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Author | : S. Arasaratnam |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131713320X |
François Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East Indies) has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia. It is a veritable encyclopaedia, bringing together an array of facts, trivial and vital, from a wide range of contemporary and earlier literature, acknowledged and unacknowledged, and contains valuable excerpts from contemporary documents of the Dutch East India Company and from private papers. It is indeed a public archive. Despite this historic character of the work, it was never republished in full in a critical edition or made available in English translation. It has therefore remained relatively unknown and little read, except by the specialist wanting to quarry this mine of information for his particular purpose. This edition of Valentijn embraces the part dealing with Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the fifth volume of Old and New East Indies. The island of Ceylon is one of three areas that has received the most detailed treatment in the work, with substantial sections devoted to geography, topography, society, natural history and the record of historical tradition. He also provides an almost contemporaneous account of the Dutch conquest of the island. For his description of Ceylon, Valentijn has had access to a variety of sources - Sinalese, Portuguese and Dutch - and has presented this material to us with his characteristic attention to detail. The volume now published with an introduction and explanatory notes is many things for many people: a geographer's manual, a naturalist's handbook, an anthropologist's collection of caste and custom, an antiquarian's record of tradition and a chronicler's narrative of history. One of the most informative writings on Ceylon is made available, for the first time, to the English-reading public.
Author | : François Valentijn |
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Release | : 1971 |
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Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
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Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : South Africa |
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Author | : Siegfried Huigen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9047430875 |
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.
Author | : Robert Ross |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1999-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139425617 |
In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. His 1999 book describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language, and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of a colonial society.
Author | : Charles Pettman |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Names, Geographical |
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Author | : E. J. Verwey |
Publisher | : HSRC Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780796916488 |
This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.