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To the Fairest Cape
Malcolm Jack
其他書名
European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
出版Rutgers University Press, 2018-10-08
主題History / GeneralHistory / Africa / South / Republic of South AfricaHistory / Modern / 18th CenturySocial Science / SlaveryTravel / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
ISBN16844800279781684480029
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=yU1eDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.