Browsing Journals by Subject "Business history"
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Dynasty building, family networks and social capital: alcohol pachters and the development of a colonial elite at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1760-1790.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)A hallmark of colonisation was extensive social reconfiguration, leading to the development of local elites which differed from the metropolitan and indigenous patterns. Historians of the Cape of Good Hope during the ... -
Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”. This retail business was organised ...
