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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

1 online resource (xii, 273 p., [39] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)

ISBN 9004177434 (hbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9789004177437 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Atlantic world, ISSN 1570-0542 ; v. 18

Includes bibliographical references and index

Wagon routes : an introduction -- Peter Kolb’s Defence of the "Hottentots" (1719) -- Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd : the voc and the geography of Southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century -- Trade and science : reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1761-1762 -- Xhosa and Khoikhoi "households" : representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon atlas -- The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa : the travel accounts of Francois le Vaillant -- A ’Black legend’ of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow -- Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa -- The first ethnographic monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti -- Conclusion: Knowledge and colonialism -- Annex 1: Independent editions and translations of Peter Kolb’s Capvt bonae spei hodiernvm in the eighteenth century -- Annex 2: Structure of the Nieuwste en beknopte beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hope.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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