This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and
expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in
the global south became European settler societies from the 16th
century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the
creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual
process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of
indigenous peoples played an important role. He identifies the
drivers behind settler expansion, explores the effect of inequality
on long-term economic development and examines the relationship
between settlers and the colonial authorities, asserting that they
should not be treated as one homogenous group with shared economic
interests. Assessing specific characteristics of the Cape Colony,
such as the proposition it was a slavery economy, and comparing key
insights of this study with the historiography of other settler
colonies, Creating the Cape Colony demonstrates the need to revise
our understanding of how settler economies operated, and to rethink
the long-term legacies of settler colonialism. The ebook editions
of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The
Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation grant.
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