Cape Conflict: Protest and Political Alliances in a Dutch Settlement

ISBN-13: 9789087283346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 240 str.

Teun Baartman

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Introduction
1. From refreshment to settlement
2. Dutch Africa
3. A big mistake
4. Traditions of protest
5. The burgher troubles spread like wildfire
6. The 404 burghers
7. Motives for protest
a. The 1778 ‘Revolution’
b. The Enlightenment
c. The “deteriorating state of the burghers”
d. Banishment and burgher honour
. The Cape elite – family and power
9. A challenge from within
10. Protests continued … and betrayed
11. Not Patriots, but matadors