The quantitative Cape: Notes from a new Histriography of the Dutch Cape Colony

Johan Fourie

No 371, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: The digitisation and transcription of rich archival sources and the use of statistical techniques combined with modern computing power, have, over the last decade, allowed social scientists to reinterpret eighteenth-century Cape history. This review essay summarises the main results from the burgeoning literature; assesses whether these new studies refute or support earlier hypotheses; shows how […]

Keywords: Colonial history; Development; Economic History (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 N17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09-01
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