His World and Himself (New York, 1983); J. H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance
(New York, 1963).
2. Boorstin, Discoverers, 177.
3. C. R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, 1600-1800
(London, 1965);
Fernand Braudel, The Perspective of the World, trans. Sian Reynolds (New York,
1984), chap. 3; Philip Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge,
1984), chap. 7.
4. The annual publications of the VanRiebeeck Society (Cape Town, 1918f£.)
include many documents that are primary sources for this chapter. The Van.
Riebeeck Society was also responsible for the publication of the Journal of Jan van
Riebeeck, ed. H.B. Thorn, 3 vols. (CapeTown and Amsterdam, 1952,1954,195 8).
The basic synthesis is Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee, eds., The Shaping
of South African Society, 1652 - 1820 (Cape Townand Middletown, Conn., 1989).
5. Gerrit Schutte, "Company and Colonists at the Cape, 1652-1795,"
Leonard Duelke, "Freehold Farmers and Frontier Settlers, 1652-1780,"
and Rob-
ert Ross, "The Cape of Good Hope and the World Economy, 1652-1835,"
in
Shaping.
6. Nigel Worden, Slavery in Dutch South Africa (Cambridge, 1985); Robert
Ross, Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa (London, 1983);
James C. Armstrong and Nigel Worden, "The Slaves, 1652-1834,"
in Shaping;