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

This book opens up histories of childhood and youth in South African historiography. It looks at how childhoods changed during South Africa's industrialisation,

In this biography of the Khoikhoi Jan Paerl (1761-1851) light is being shed on a new form of resistance against colonial domination in Cape society. It emphasiz

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Examines the significance of the abolition of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony in 1834 and the subsequent development of race relations.