After Race and Class: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Early Colonial Cape Society

2010/09/01 by Nigel Worden · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #South African History and Culture #African history and culture studies #Australian History and Society

paper · doi:10.1080/02582473.2010.519904

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Abstract

This article reviews the recent upsurge of writing on the history of the early colonial Cape Colony from the VOC period to the early nineteenth century. It responds to important questions raised by Nicole Ulrich's review article of Contingent Lives in this issue. In particular it considers what is gained and what can be lost in the recent shift from class-based analyses characteristic of late twentieth-century revisionist South African historiography to research more influenced by the ‘cultural turn’, transnational and microhistorical approaches.

Citations

• New Approaches to VOC History in South Africa
• The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age.

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• History of South Africa [wikipedia]