Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class
| dc.contributor.author | Giliomee, Hermann | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-26T09:37:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-26T09:37:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1983 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The revisionist literature of the 1970s approached social stratification in South Africa with the insistence that proper 'weighting' of the race and class factors should occur. Arguing that class and not racial consciousness was the key determinant of social structure in pre-industrial South Africa, it concluded that eighteenth century Cape society in certain areas of the colony was characterised by greater fluidity than the caste system of the AmericanSouth or industrialised South Africa. George Fredrickson's comparative analysis of American and South African history rejects the first mentioned approach but agrees with the conclusion. This article argues that Fredrickson erred by characterising Cape society as being largely based on class and a permeable colour line. The extent to which Cape Town or frontier society can be categorised as such was limited,while the agrarian Western Cape, in terms of manumission rates and the incidence of mixed marriages, was one of the most rigid caste societies in the world.The article concludes by observing that only by studying how political and class relationships reinforced each other can the full complexity of eighteenth century Cape society be revealed. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Giliomee, H. (1983). Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class. <i>Social Dynamics</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25372 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Giliomee, Hermann "Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class." <i>Social Dynamics</i> (1983) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25372 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Giliomee, H. (1983). Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class. Social Dynamics, 9(1): 18-29. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0253-3952 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Giliomee, Hermann AB - The revisionist literature of the 1970s approached social stratification in South Africa with the insistence that proper 'weighting' of the race and class factors should occur. Arguing that class and not racial consciousness was the key determinant of social structure in pre-industrial South Africa, it concluded that eighteenth century Cape society in certain areas of the colony was characterised by greater fluidity than the caste system of the AmericanSouth or industrialised South Africa. George Fredrickson's comparative analysis of American and South African history rejects the first mentioned approach but agrees with the conclusion. This article argues that Fredrickson erred by characterising Cape society as being largely based on class and a permeable colour line. The extent to which Cape Town or frontier society can be categorised as such was limited,while the agrarian Western Cape, in terms of manumission rates and the incidence of mixed marriages, was one of the most rigid caste societies in the world.The article concludes by observing that only by studying how political and class relationships reinforced each other can the full complexity of eighteenth century Cape society be revealed. DA - 1983 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Social Dynamics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1983 SM - 0253-3952 T1 - Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class TI - Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25372 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25372 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Giliomee H. Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class. Social Dynamics. 1983; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25372. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Political Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Social Dynamics | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsdy20 | |
| dc.title | Eighteenth Century Cape Society and its Historiography: Culture, Race, and Class | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |