Browsing Journals by Subject "Dutch Republic"

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    • Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests 

      Baartman, Teun (School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
      This article seeks to emphasise the notion that the Cape settlement of the VOC period needs to be studied within the context of the Dutch world and not in isolation. In recent research, empires are seen more as a collection ...

    • Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world 

      Groenewald, Gerald (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 ...