Title: Status and respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870
First published: 1999
Description: "Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1870. He describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of colonial society."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Social conditions, Social life and customs, Social status, South africa, social conditions, Slavery, HistorySocial life and customs
Places: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Time periods: To 1795, 1795-1872
LC classification: DT1813 .R67 1999