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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Russel ViljoenPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781666900583ISBN 10: 1666900583 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 15 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Microhistory and Reclaiming Histories of the Modest Chapter 1. Love, Lust and Loathe: The Story of Lost Love : Griet and Hendrik Eksteen, c.1739-1759 Chapter 2. Master, Malcontent, and Murderer: Khoikhoi Andries and Johannes Adriaan de Necker in Dutch-South Africa, c.1764-1766 Chapter 3. Jan Paerl c.1788-1851: Restitutionist, Religious Prophet, and Respectable Convert Chapter 4. Soil Once His Own : The Colonial and Christian World of Lebrecht Hans Ari: A Khoikhoi and Moravian Convert at the Cape, c.1774-1864 Chapter 5. Sketching the Khoikhoi : George French Angas and His Depiction of Genadendal Khoikhoi Characters at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1847ReviewsIn this book, Russel Viljoen has once again demonstrated the power of microhistory for the understanding of the colonial past of the Khoikhoi. On the basis of meticulous archival research, he has reconstructed the lives, or at any rate the most dramatic parts of the lives, of a number of the Khoikhoi individuals living in Swellendam district. He has done it with verve, and most importantly he has shown how an individual's experience becomes intermeshed with that of others to create the wider story of Cape Colonial history. -- Robert Ross, Leiden University 'Big history often blurs the pain of ordinary lives under oppression. Instead, Russel Viljoen, in his latest volume, finds intricate and intimate details in the colonial record and indigenous sources to give vivid and shocking detail to the lived experience of Khoikhoi labourers, cooks and wagon drivers in the far-reaches of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Cape society. The trauma of criminality and racism, mixed with lost love and religion, are empathetically clustered in micro-histories, producing a sharper narrative of the struggle to save a semblance of pre-colonial freedom. -- Greg Cuthbertson, University of South Africa Author InformationRussel Viljoen is professor of history at the University of South Africa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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