A Decolonial Diary: Traversing the Colonial Pasts and Presents of the Cape of Good Hope

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-275
Author(s):  
Christian Ernsten ◽  
Nick Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Cape Of Good Hope

scholarly journals Art. XX. An Account of the Religious Opinions and Observances of the Khonds of Goomsur and Boad

1843 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 172-199
Author(s):  
Samuel Charters Maopherson
Keyword(s):  
General Interest ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
The Military

[Note. Several years ago, at the close of the military operations of the Madras Government in Goomsur, Captain (then Lieutenant) Macpherson executed by order of government a survey of the country, and in that service lost his health. From the Cape of Good Hope, whither he had gone for its recovery, he transmitted his notes on the religion of the Khonds to a relative in this country, who considered them to possess so much novelty and general interest, that he presented them to the Society, upon his own responsibility, and without the sanction of the writer: and a few additions having been since made, the paper is now laid before the public.]

Cape of Good Hope?

1977 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-77
Author(s):  
Dennis Chaplin
Keyword(s):  
Cape Of Good Hope

scholarly journals The Dido Story in Accounts of Early Modern European Imperialism—An Anthology

Itinerario ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-150
Author(s):  
Andrew Newman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Travel Accounts

This anthology of excerpts from histories and travel accounts composed during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries features representations of indigenous oral traditions about the founding of European colonies in Sri Lanka, Melaka, Gujarat, Cambodia, Manila, Jakarta, Taiwan, New York, and the Cape of Good Hope. According to these accounts, the colonists first requested as much land as the hide of an ox could cover, and then cut that hide into strips and claimed all the land they could encircle. The “oxhide measure” is a widely-attested folkloric motif. The introduction, however, questions assumptions about the unreliability of oral traditions and looks to history instead of folklore for an explanation for the colonial parallels. It proposes that Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch colonists performed the “hide trick” in emulation of the classical story of the Phoenician Queen Dido’s founding of Carthage.

Engraved plate of George Romney's "The Shipwreck"

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Period ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
To Come

Arguably one of the most remarkable images in any engraved plate to come out of Britain during the Romantic period, Blake's engraving is of George Romney's painting "A Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope" (now lost), which was first published in William Hayley's The Life of George Romney (Chichester, 1809).

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