Malcolm Jack

Gebundenes Buch

To the Fairest Cape

European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope

Beschreibung

Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

Autor

Malcolm Jack is an author, critic and university lecturer. His books include Corruption & Progress: the Eighteenth-Century Debate (1989); William Beckford: An English Fidalgo (1996); Sintra: A Glorious Eden (2002); and Lisbon: City of the Sea (2007). Brought up in Hong Kong, he had a career in the British Parliament and also writes and advises on constitutional matters. He is a contributor to the Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town where he has a home. He was appointed KCB in 2011 and FSA in 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781684480005
• ISBN-10: 1684480000
• Artikelnr.: 53302572