TY - BOOK ID - 85670260 TI - To the fairest cape PY - 2019 SN - 1684480043 1684480027 1684480000 9781684480029 9781684480005 9781684480012 1684480019 9781684480043 PB - Lewisburg, Pennsylvania DB - UniCat KW - Europeans KW - Khoisan (African people) KW - Khoi-San (African people) KW - Ethnology KW - History. KW - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) KW - South Africa KW - Race relations. KW - Race question UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85670260 AB - Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. ER -