Knowledge and colonialism
Subtitle: eighteenth-century travellers in South Africa
By: by Siegfried Huigen.
Series: Atlantic world : Europe, Africa, and the Americas, 1500-1830 -- v. 18
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004177437
Subjects: Travelers -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century; Europeans -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century; Ethnology -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century; Ethnological expeditions -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 18th century; Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel; Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Description and travel -- Sources; South Africa -- History -- To 1836; South Africa -- Colonial influence; South Africa -- Description and travel; South Africa -- Description and travel -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wagon routes : an introduction; title: Peter Kolb's Defence of the "Hottentots" (1719); title: Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd : the VOC and the geography of Southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century; title: Trade and science : reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1761-1762; title: Xhosa and Khoikhoi "households" : representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon atlas; title: The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa : the travel accounts of Francois le Vaillant; title: A "Black legend" of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow; title: Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa; title: The first ethnographic monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti; title: Conclusion: Knowledge and colonialism; title: Annex one: Independent editions and translations of Peter Kolb's Capvt bonae spei hodiernvm in the eighteenth century; title: Annex two: Structure of the Nieuwste en beknopte beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hope.