Creating the Cape Colony the political economy of settler colonization
This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Gr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic
[2022]
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745053506719 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Understanding the establishment of settler colonies
- 2. Indigenous agency, the cost of trade and initial steps towards a settler colony
- 3. Factor endowments, institutions and the expansion of the frontier
- 4. Was the Cape a slave economy?
- 5. Unequal we stand
- 6. Elites, coalitions and settler resistance
- Concluding remarks
- Bibliography
- Index.
