Creating the Cape Colony: The Political Economy of Settler Colonization

✍ Scribed by Erik Green

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 193
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards.
Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigenous peoples played an important role. He identifies the drivers behind settler expansion, explores the effect of inequality on long-term economic development and examines the relationship between settlers and the colonial authorities, asserting that they should not be treated as one homogenous group with shared economic interests. Assessing specific characteristics of the Cape Colony, such as the proposition it was a slavery economy, and comparing key insights of this study with the historiography of other settler colonies, Creating the Cape Colony demonstrates the need to revise our understanding of how settler economies operated, and to rethink the long-term legacies of settler colonialism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of maps
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1 Understanding the creation and expansion of settler colonies
2 Indigenous agency, the cost of trade and initial steps towards a settler colony
3 Factor endowments, institutions and the expansion of the frontier
4 Was the Cape Colony a slave economy?
5 Unequal we stand
6 Elites, coalitions and settler resistance
Concluding remarks
References
Index

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