Browsing New Contree: 2015 No 73 by Issue Date
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Cape of storms: Surveying and rethinking popular resistance in the eighteenth-century Cape colony
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In this article I provide a broad overview of resistance at the Cape under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) undertaken by the multiracial and multiethnic popular classes (low-ranking Company servants including soldiers and ... -
Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article seeks to emphasise the notion that the Cape settlement of the VOC period needs to be studied within the context of the Dutch world and not in isolation. In recent research, empires are seen more as a collection ... -
Locating home where discourses of gender and empire intersect: An analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries and journals
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Lady Anne Barnard’s abundant textual legacy has received a great deal of academic attention with scholars scrutinising her letters, journals and diaries. Although much excellent research has been done on her texts, no ... -
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 ... -
The transnational factor: The beginnings of South Africa’s women’s movement
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The South African women’s movement had its origins in the Cape, but it also had a strong transnational relationship with countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. The earliest formally created ... -
Warman, J. 2014. The class of ’79. [Book review]
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Bossenbroek, M. 2015. The Boer War. [Book review]
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Mlambo, A. 2014. A history of Zimbabwe. [Book review]
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Johns, S. 2014. From protest to challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South Africa 1882-1990, Vol. 1, Protest and hope, 1882-1934. [Book review]
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Loyalism in the Cape colony: Exploring the Khoesan subject-citizen space, c.1828-1834
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article presents the argument that British loyalism became a defining feature of Khoesan identity during the period from 1828 to 1834. The analysis suggests that expressions of loyalty to the British Crown reflected ... -
Fashion and the world of the women of the VOC official elite
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)During the early modern period material culture increasingly started to serve as symbols of identity and status rather than merely fulfilling a basic need. One example of such possessions that was particularly relevant ... -
The forgotten Effendi: Ottoman Muslim theologian, Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi, and the real story of the Bo-Kaap Museum, c.1894-1978
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article attempts to re-present the religious and educational activities of a forgotten Muslim scholar, Mahmud Fakih Effendi, in Cape history. The subject of the article is related to this Ottoman scholar, as well ... -
Government schooling and teacher identity: The exertions of the first-class teacher at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, c.1856-1873
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In 1839 the colonial administration introduced to the Cape Colony one of the first systems of state education in the British Empire. This Established System of Education staggered along for a quarter century before the ...
