Co-edition with Jacana Media, Auckland Park (South Africa). Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-252) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Nigel Worden -- The cultural landscape / Antonia Malan -- The VOC official elite / Robert Ross and Alicia Schrikker -- Entrepreneurs and the making of a free burgher society / Gerald Groenewald -- Protest and Dutch burgher identity / Teun Baartman -- Southeast Asian migrants / Kerry Ward -- The Chinese exiles / James C. Armstrong -- Jan Smiesing, Slave Lodge schoolmaster and healer, 1697-1734 / Robert Shell and Archie Dick -- Family, friendship and survival among freed slaves / Susan Newton-King -- Soldiers and Cape Town society / Nigel Penn -- Public brawling, masculinity and honour / Nigel Worden.
Summary:
"This is the first single-volume social history of eighteenth-century Dutch Cape Town. ... [I]t looks at the port settlement in all the complexity of its social interactions. Not only does it consider the elite inhabitants such as the 'expat' officials of the Dutch East India Company and the free burghers but it also includes members of Cape Town's underclasses: soldiers and sailors, artisans, convicts, exiles and freed slaves. At the same time the book positions the town in the wider context of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and stresses its complex connections with Europe, Asia and Africa."--P. [4] of cover.
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