To the fairest cape : European encounters in the Cape of Good Hope /

To the fairest cape : European encounters in the Cape of Good Hope /

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Author / Creator:	Jack, Malcolm, 1946- author.
Imprint:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Description:	xviii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Europeans -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History. Khoisan (African people) Europeans. Khoisan (African people) Race relations. Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History. South Africa -- Race relations. South Africa. South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11709249

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ISBN:	9781684480005 1684480000 9781684480012 1684480019
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travelers 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 focusses 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"--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
1. Ancient and Mythical Place
2. Adamastor's Reign
3. Paradise Lost
4. Enlightenment Visitors
5. Ennobling the Savage
6. Paradise Regained
7. A Call for Freedom
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index