Contingent Lives. Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World – Worden, Nigel (Ed)

Collection of papers presented at a conference of South African and Asian experts on the social and cultural history of the Dutch East India Company’s settlements in the Cape and in Asia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Contents: Inventories and auctions; Traders and colonists; Urban settlements in Asia; Collectors and collections; Constructing and performing identity; Text and discourse; kinship, property and identity; and Soldiers and sailors at the Cape. Looking at people often neglected in VOC studies such as women, slaves and slave traders, convicts, soldiers, sailors, pirates, traders and Chinese exiles. Some light thumbing. 612 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good to very good. Binding: Softcover. Some light edge-wear.

Publisher: Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town
Date Published: 2007
Publication Place: Cape Town
First Edition: Yes

Condition: Good to very good.
Binding: Softcover. Some light edge-wear. Tiny nick to the fore-edge.