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Rogues, rebels, and runaways : eighteenth₋century Cape characters / Nigel Penn.
- Title
- Rogues, rebels, and runaways : eighteenth₋century Cape characters / Nigel Penn.
- Author
- Penn, Nigel
- Publication
- Cape Town : D. Philip Publishers, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DT1813 .P46 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 195 p. : map; 22 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-192) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The dissolute Cape Town beer brewer, Willem Menssink, whose fatal passion for a young slave woman brought about his downfall; Carel Buijtendag, the beast of the Bokkeveld; and Estienne Barbier, the quixotic champion of the oppressed and leader of a rebellion against the VOC government: these, as well as an assortment of runaway slaves and Company deserters, are some of the lesser-known characters from the eighteenth-century Dutch Cape whom the historian Nigel Penn has brought to life in a series of hugely enjoyable and historically revealing stories. The fatal passion of Brewer Menssink: sex, beer and politics in a Cape family, 1694 -- 1722. Fugitives on the Cape Frontier, c. 1680 -- 1770. Estienne Barbier: An eighteenth-century Cape social bandit. The Beast of the Bokkeveld: the banishing of Carel Buijtendag, 1770 -- 1780. Droster gangs of the Bokkeveld and Roggeveld, 1770 -- 1800.
- ISBN
- 0864863861 (D. Philip)
- 9065500545 (Verloren Publishers)
- LCCN
- ^^^99209300^
- OCLC
- 45276483
- SCSB-10504418
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library