dc.contributor.author | Baartman, Teun | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-11-25T12:20:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-11-25T12:20:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Baartman, T. 2015. Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 73:40-60, Nov. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0379-9867 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15311 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article seeks to emphasise the notion that the Cape settlement of the
VOC period needs to be studied within the context of the Dutch world and
not in isolation. In recent research, empires are seen more as a collection of
nodes than structures of a centre with peripheries. Each node can be part of
several networks, which contribute to the shaping of that node. When applied
to the Cape settlement this concept makes a valuable contribution to our
understanding of Cape society and its residents. The Cape was a complex society
in which several different groups lived together. Each of these experienced
their environment in another manner influenced by the networks they were
part of, and each of these made their own contribution to the shaping of
the Cape settlement. This article focuses on the burgher group and especially
those burghers from the middle and upper layers. These burghers were the
ones who were mostly exposed to the many connections of the Cape with the
Netherlands through for instance religion, education, enterprise, the justice
system, and travel. As a result, they came to regard themselves as burghers of
the United Netherlands who were entitled to all the rights and privileges of
that status. The VOC administration did not agree and argued that all were
subjects of the Company. The position on both sides of the conflict needs to
be referenced to the larger framework of the Dutch world. As such this clash is
a practical example of how the Cape during the Dutch period can only really
be understood as part of a larger context which shows that the Cape, although
perhaps unique and atypical, ultimately was part and parcel of the Dutch
trading empire and its networks. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University | en_US |
dc.subject | Cape Colony | en_US |
dc.subject | Eighteenth century | en_US |
dc.subject | VOC | en_US |
dc.subject | Burghers | en_US |
dc.subject | Dutch Republic | en_US |
dc.subject | Dutch seaborne empire | en_US |
dc.subject | Networks | en_US |
dc.subject | Dutch identity | en_US |
dc.subject | Town planning | en_US |
dc.subject | Dutch Reformed Church | en_US |
dc.subject | Cape Patriots | en_US |
dc.title | Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |