Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870: A Tragedy of MannersCambridge University Press, 01/07/1999 - 203 من الصفحات In a compelling example of the cultural history of South Africa, Robert Ross offers a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape between 1750 and 1850. His 1999 book describes the symbolism of dress, emblems, architecture, food, language, and polite conventions, paying particular attention to domestic relationships, gender, education and religion, and analyses the values and the modes of thinking current in different strata of the society. He argues that these cultural factors were related to high political developments in the Cape, and offers a rich account of the changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and of the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance to white domination. The result is a uniquely nuanced account of a colonial society. |
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1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Under the VOC | 9 |
3 English and Dutch | 40 |
4 The content of respectability | 70 |
5 Christianity status and respectability | 94 |
6 Outsiders | 125 |
7 Acceptance and rejection | 146 |
8 Conclusion | 173 |
Bibliography | 177 |
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Afrikaner Anglican ARA VOC Balkema baptism Batavia Bethelsdorp Bradlow British burghers Cape Colony Cape Dutch Cape Muslims Cape of Torments Cape Town Christian church cited claim clothing Colony’s coloured culture distinction District dress early nineteenth century Eastern Cape eighteenth century elite Elphick emancipation English ethnic European ex-slaves farm farmers Findlay Free Blacks Frontier Genadendal Giliomee Godlonton Government Governor Grahamstown Griqua Hendrik Hendrik Swellengrebel History Hope Hottentots inhabitants instance Islamic Johannesburg John Philip Journal Kaapse Kerk Khoi Khoikhoi Khoisan labourers language later least Liberalism living LMS-SA London Lord Charles Somerset Malay marriage matter Mentzel mission stations missionaries nation Netherlands official Olive Schreiner Parliament Plakkaatboek Police in Cape political respectability Riebeeck Society Robert Ross SACA Schoeman schools Schreiner seen servants settlers Slavery slaves social Somerset South Africa status Stellenbosch Swellengrebel thesis tion University Press women wrote Xhosa