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Landscape of conquest: frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652–1780

Journal of Southern African Studies, 1992
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries European settlers ousted the Khoikhoi and San from much of the land they inhabited in south‐western Africa using a strategic combination of technology and bureaucracy. The settlers possessed a powerful new fighting technology in the form of firearms and horses that enabled them to hold and defend lands taken ...
Leonard Guelke
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Diversity to decline-livelihood adaptations of the Namaqua Khoikhoi (1800–1900)

Global Environmental Change, 2015
Abstract An environmental history of the Leliefontein community of Namaqualand, Northern Cape provides a detailed case of the nexus between social and ecological stresses shaping livelihood change. By combining an historical proxy precipitation data set with a livelihood change study the value of historical research in integrated studies of past ...
Clare Kelso, Coleen Vogel
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Labour Laws and Stereotypes: Images of the Khoikhoi in the Cape in the Age of Abolition

South African Historical Journal, 1996
(1996). Labour Laws and Stereotypes: Images of the Khoikhoi in the Cape in the Age of Abolition. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 115-134.
Zine Magubane
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The Khoikhoi Population, 1652-1780: A Review of the Evidence and Two New Estimates

Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 2018
Fourie and Green construct estimates of the Khoikhoi population over the 1652-1780 period using benchmarks for the initial and terminal Khoi populations and benchmarks for the punctuated population...
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Remembering the Khoikhoi victory over Dom Francisco Almeida at the Cape in 1510

Postcolonial Studies, 2009
The general issue of how key moments of anti-colonial struggle are remembered in different colonial and postcolonial contexts is considered in relation to the specific case of the Khoikhoi victory ...
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THE TRAGEDY OF PRIVATISATION: SOME ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DUTCH INVASION OF KHOIKHOI SOUTH AFRICA

Southern African Geographical Journal, 2003
The Khoikhoi nomadic system of communal resource management, contrary to notions that open access to common lands leads to their overuse, allowed Khoikhoi herders to get the most out of the game-rich grazing lands they inhabited in South Africa. In a country where rainfall is often unreliable and variable the Khoikhoi system offered the kind of ...
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Khoikhoi and missionaries in early nineteenth-century southern Namibia: social change in a frontier zone

African Historical Review, 1990
(1990). Khoikhoi and missionaries in early nineteenth-century southern Namibia: social change in a frontier zone. Kleio: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 24-41.
Tilman Dedering
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Visions of disorder and profit: The Khoikhoi and the first years of the Dutch east India company at the cape

Social Dynamics, 1994
(1994). Visions of disorder and profit: The Khoikhoi and the first years of the Dutch east India company at the cape. Social Dynamics: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 35-66.
Carli Coetzee
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Khoikhoi

2021
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Written culture and the Cape Khoikhoi: From travel writingto Kolb’s ‘Full Description’

2012
A significant change in the representation of the Khoikhoi occurred in the 18th century. Increasingly, the Khoikhoi came to be depicted with a degree of sympathy, and joined the ranks of that growing category of humanity that enlightened Europeans came to identify as 'noble savages'.
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