Browsing Journals by Subject "Cape of Good Hope"
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Cape of storms: Surveying and rethinking popular resistance in the eighteenth-century Cape colony
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In this article I provide a broad overview of resistance at the Cape under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) undertaken by the multiracial and multiethnic popular classes (low-ranking Company servants including soldiers and ... -
Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”. This retail business was organised ...