Beyond the pale: essays on the history of colonial South Africa

This Collection Of Ten Essays Features Revisions Of Articles Previously Only Available In Obscure Journals, Together With New Work Published Here For The First Time. Topics Covered In This Collection Include: Class Formation And Economic Structure; Family History And Settler Demography; Racial Stratification In The Pre-industrial Cape; The Position Of Slaves And Khoi In The Colonial Legal System; And The Roots Of Afrikaner Calvinism. Ross Depicts The Creation Of A Distinctive Colonial Society In The 18th And 19th Centuries Which Provided A Legacy To Modern South Africa Which Is Frequently Overlooked In Academic Writing. The Essays Incorporate Much New Archival Research, Particularly From Dutch Sources. -- From Https://www.amazon.co.uk (dec. 21, 2017). Economy And Class Formation In The Cape Colony. The Cape Economy And The Cape Gentry ; Montagu's Roads To Capitalism -- Racial Stratification And Ideologies. Going Beyond The Pale: On The Roots Of White Supremacy ; The Etiquette Of Race -- Population And Family Formation. The White Population Of The Cape Colony In The Eighteenth Century ; The Developmental Spiral Of The White Family And The Expansion Of The Frontier -- The Rule By Law. The Rule Of Lawe In The Cape Colony In The Eighteenth Century ; The Changing Legal Position Of The Khoisan In The Cape Colony, 1652-1795 -- Toward An Intellectual History. The Rise Of Afrikaner Calvinism ; Donald Moodie And The Origins Of South African Historiography. Robert Ross. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.