Browsing New Contree: 2015 No 73 by Subject "Eighteenth century"

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    • Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests 

      Baartman, Teun (School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
      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 ...

    • Fashion and the world of the women of the VOC official elite 

      Coetzee, Liza-Mari (School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
      During the early modern period material culture increasingly started to serve as symbols of identity and status rather than merely fulfilling a basic need. One example of such possessions that was particularly relevant ...