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| Country Profiles | Current |
Article : Cape Colony, from Wikipedia |
| Historical |
P. Kolbe, Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de kaap de Goede Hoop,
1727, in Dutch, GB P. Buchenroeder, Beknopt berigt nopens de volkplanting de Kaap de Goede Hoop, 1806, in Dutch, GB Ansicht des Vorgebirges der Guten Hoffnung im Jahre 1814, pp.20-40 in vol.1 of Ethnographisches Archiv, 1814, in German, GB J.C. Chase, The Cape of Good Hope and the eastern province of Algoa Bay, 1843, GB G. Nicholson, The cape and its colonists: with hints to settlers in 1848, 1848, GB T. Smith, South Africa delineated, 1850, GB H. Hall, Manual of South African geography, 1859, GB R. Noble, The Cape and its people: and other essays, 1869, GB J. Noble, Descriptive Handbook of the Cape Colony : Its Condition and Resources (1875), IA |
| Links | on History |
Category : Cape Colony, from Wikipedia |
| Historical Dictionaries |
| Timelines |
Alistair Boddy-Evans, Timeline of Slavery in the Cape Colony |
| Accounts of History | Modern |
| Historical |
G. Lauts, Geschiedenis van de Kaap de Goede Hoop, Nederlandsche volkplanting. 1652-1806,
1854, in Dutch, GB The Cape of Good Hope, pp.1-262 in R.M. Martin, History of Southern Africa, 1836, GB A. Wilmot, History of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 1869, GB |
| Specific Periods |
Article : History of Cape Colony until 1806,
1806-1870,
1870-1899,
1899-1910, from Wikipedia D. Mills, The English in Africa (1900), posted on Internet Archive, chapter VII : The English and the Dutch in South Africa, pp.158-196 A.F. Trotter, Old Cape Colony; a chronicle of her men and houses from 1652-1806 (1903), posted on Internet Archive J. Cappon, Britain's Title in South Africa, Or, The Story of Cape Colony to the Days of the Great Trek (1901), posted on Internet Archive A. Wilmot, J.C. Chase, History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope: From Its Discovery to the Year 1819 (1869), posted on Internet Archive |
| Politics |
| Military |
First Kaffir War 1818-1819,
Kaffir War 1834-1835,
Kaffir War 1846,
Anglo-Boer War 1848,
Kaffir War 1851-1853,
Basuto War 1852,
Basuto War 1857,
Kaffir War 1877-1878,
Boer War 1899-1902, from ACED R. Cannon, History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen (1842), IA |
| Economy & Finances |
Entry South Africa, from Global History
of Currencies, by Bryan Taylor History of the First National Bank A.R.E. Burton, Cape Colony for the Settler: An Account of Its Urban and Rural Industries, Their Probable Future (1902), posted on Internet Archive |
| Social History |
Sieketroosters aan die Kaap 1652-1866 (Nurses at the Cape), summary of J.P. Claasen's doctoral thesis, summarized by
by Johan Erasmus, in Afrikaans Laura J. Mitchell, Belongings : Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa, diss. Columbia UP n.d. R. Cadbury, Everyday Life in Cape Colony in Time of Peace (1902), posted on Internet Archive Iziko : History of Slavery in South Africa Immigranten in Kaap de Goede Hoop in de 17e eeuw, from CBG, in Dutch |
| Ethnography |
The Slave Route, from Arts 2000, on the history of slavery in the Cape Colony German Immigrants to the Dutch Cape Colony 1652-1806, from German South Africa Resource Page South Africa, pp.29-59 in Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, 1837, GB J.S. Mason, On the Malays of Cape Town, 1855, GB |
| Religion |
Article Nerderduits Gereformeerde Kerk,
Afrikaner Calvinism, from Wikipedia |
| History of Regions |
Article Griqualand West,
Stellaland, from Wikipedia |
| Local History |
History of Cape Town from Wikipedia A Brief History of Cape Town, from Cape Town 2004 |
| Institutions |
| Biographies |
| Others |
Afrotropic Ecoregion, from WWF |
| WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
| Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
from Cape Colony by Ben Cahoon Regnal Chronologies : Southern Africa, scroll down for Minor Boer States (the chieftaincies listed there, in fact, were no Boer states, but Griqua etc. polities); scroll sown for Xhosa, kwaZulu Governors of Dutch Empire, Cape Colony, from Wikibooks |
| Lists of Consuls |
Political Graveyard, South Africa,
has incomplete list of U.S. consuls in Cape Town since 1799 |
| Lists of Bishops |
List of (Anglican) Bishops and Archbishops of Cape Town,
from Wikipedia Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town : List of Ordinaries of Cape Town, from Wikipedia |
| Population Figures |
South Africa, historical demographical data by administrative division, from
Population Statistics by Jan Lahmeyer Statistical Register of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1887, 1902, 1905 posted on Internet Archive |
| Documents | Historical Newspapers |
De Gereformeerde kerkbode in Zuid-Afrika
vol.1 1848,
vol.2 1850,
vol.3 1851,
vol.4 1853,
vol.5,
vol.6 1854,
vol.7 1855,
vol.8 1856,
vol.17 1865, GB |
| Online Yearbooks | Staatskalender |
African Court Calendar / Africaansche Staats Almanak
1807,
1809,
1811,
1814 GB African Court Calendar and Directory 1822, GB Colonial Office List : Cape of Good Hope, 1862 pp.50-56, 1867 pp.29-35, GB |
| International - Cape Colony Entries |
Historiesch Schoutooneel van 's Waerlds Lotgewallen in het jaar ...
vol.1 : 1791 1792, pp.413-414,
in Dutch, GB |
| Image Databanks |
Search University of Johannesburg Digispace for Cape Colony Search Atlas of Mutual Heritage for Cape Town Search ingenious for "Cape", click for images Search Scripophily for Cape Colony, Cape Town From British Military Medals : Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal 1880-1897, Queen's South Africa Medal, 1899-1901, King's South Africa Medal, 1901-1902, Defence of Kimberley Star, 1899-1900 |
| Archival Deposits | Cape Colony Collections |
Resolutions of the Council of Policy of Cape of Good Hope,
TANAP Inventories of the Orphan Chamber of the Cape of Good Hope, TANAP Stadsarchief Amsterdam, 213: Archief van de Evangelisch-Lutherse Gemeente te Amsterdam; Kerkenraad en Ouderlingen, position 5: Archiefstukken betreffende de oprichting van, later betreffende de kerkelijke zaken in de gemeente Batavia en Kaap de Gode Hoop, van 1776-1820. Archief van de commissie voor kerkelijke zaken in Oost-Indië |
| Archives holding docs. on C.C. |
Nationaalarchief, NL National Archives, UK |
| Constitutions, Laws |
Cape of Good Hope, pp.149-159 in A. Mills, Colonial constitutions :
an outline of the constitutional history and existing government of the British dependencies 1856, GB Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope, 1868, GB |
| Treaties |
South African Treaties, Conventions, Agreements and State Papers (1898(, posted on Internet Archive Treaties Entered Into by Governors of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Other British .. (1857), posted on Internet Archive Treaties Entered Into by Governors of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Other .. (1857), posted on Internet Archive |
| Historical Maps | Map Issuing Institutions |
Republic of South Africa, Chief Surveyor General R. Wonnacott, 90 years of surveying and mapping, 2010 |
| General Collections |
David Rumsey Map Collection Atlas of South Africa, from Wikimedia Commons South Africa Maps, from PCL, UTexas Category : Old Maps of South Africa, from Wikipedia C. Board, The Imperial Map Cape Colony and later military maps of the Cape Colony, South Africa. Search Atlas of Mutual Heritage for Cape Town |
| Whole Country, Modern |
Map of the Cape Colony, from Historical and Political Maps of the Modern Age Map : South Africa 1899-1910, from Le Web Pedagogique |
| Whole Country, Historical |
Cape Colony 1906,
from Probert Encyclopedia Cape Colony 1911 (Britannica), from Wikimedia Commons Cape Colony 1809, from Wikipedia |
| Detail, Modern |
| Detail, Historical |
Map of Cape Town c.1890, from Meyers Konversationsatlas, posted by
Wikimedia Commons |
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Historical Encyclopedia Entries |
General |
Articles Cape Colony,
Cape Province,
Cape Town,
Stellenbosch,
Graham's Town,
Simon's Town,
Kimberley, from EB 1911 Articles Kapland, Kapstadt, Griqualand, Kimberley, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892, in German |
| Religious |
Articles Western Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope,
Eastern Vicariate of the Cape of Good Hope, from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907 edition Cape Colony, from New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge Südafrika, pp.658-661 in vol.2 of C.Fr. Staeudlin, Kirchliche Geographie u. Statistik, 1804, in German, GB Cape Colony, pp.83-84 in W. Chapin, Missionary Gazetteer, 1825, GB Cape Colony, p.151 in Ch. Williams, Missionary Gazetteer, 1828, GB Cape Colony, p.125 in B.B. Edwards, Missionary Gazetteer, 1832, GB Cape Colony, p.221 in H. Newcomb, A Cyclopedia of Missions, 1855, GB |
| Economic |
Cape of Good Hope, pp.34-54 in W. Milburn, Oriental commerce, 1813, GB Cape of Good Hope, pp.28-34 in W. Milburn, Oriental commerce, 1825, GB Cape of Good Hope, pp.507-508 in J. Blunt, The shipmaster's assistant, and commercial digest, 1837, GB Ch. Pope, The yearly journal of trade, 1837-8 : comprising laws of customs and excise, treaties and conventions with foreign powers, tariffs of United Kingdom, Russia, Monte Video ... parliamentary speeches and papers, proclamations, orders in Council and of government boards, reports of law cases, translations of foreign documents (1838), posted on Internet Archive, on Cape of Good Hope pp.306-307 Cape of Good Hope, p.154 in W. Waterston, A manual of commerce, 1840, GB Das Kapland, pp.174-178 in Grosses Adressbuch der Kaufleute, Fabrikanten und handelnden Gewerbsleute von Europa und den Hauptpläzen der fremden Welttheile vol.23 : Griechenland, Türkei, Asien, Afrika und Australien, 1845, in German, GB |
| Geographical |
Cape Colony, pp.126-129 in J. Conder, A dictionary of geography, ancient
and modern, 1834, GB Cape Colony, Natal and Kafraria, pp.562-566 in A. Mackay, Manual of modern geography, mathematical, physical, and political, 1861, GB |
| Ethnographical |
The Cape Colony, pp.297-299 in M.E. Darton, The earth and its inhabitants,
1868, GB |
| Historical |
De Kaap de Goede Hoop, pp.478-479 in T. Salmon, Hedendaagsche historie of
tegenwoordige staat der Vereenigde Nederlanden, 1739, in Dutch, GB Cape of Good Hope, pp.512-543 in vol.15 of The modern part of an universal history, 1760, GB Cape Colony, pp.156-174 in H.R.F. Bourne, The story of our colonies, 1869, GB |
| Parliamentary Debates |
Search Hansard for Cape Colony |
| Postal Routes etc. |
Search Bradshaw's continental railway, steam transit, and general guide
1853,
1859,
1861,
1862,
1863,
1864,
1865,
1866, GB, for Cape of Good Hope |
| Travelogues |
B. Stout, Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies: An accurate and truly interesting
description of those delightful regions, situated five hundred miles north of the Cape, formerly in possession of the Dutch, but lately ceded
to the Crown of England; and which are to be colonized, with every possible despatch ... Likewise a luminous and affecting detail of Captain Stout's
travels through the deserts of Caffraria and the Christian settlements, to the Cape, 1820, GB Notes on the Cape of Good Hope: made during an excursion in that colony in the year 1820 , 1821, GB B. Shaw, Memorials of South Africa, 1840, GB J.T. Arbousset, F. Daumas, Narrative of an exploratory tour to the north-east of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 1846, GB E.H.D.E. Napier, Excursions in Southern Africa: Including a History of the Cape Colony (1849), posted on Internet Archive |
| Exhibition Catalogues |
South Africa, pp.949-952 in vol.4 of Official descriptive and illustrated catalogue
, Great Exhibition of 1851, GB Cape of Good Hope. General committee instituted for the Universal exhibition of 1855, Universal exhibition, 1855, colony of the Cape of Good Hope: vademecum, 1855, GB Cape of Good Hope, p.113 in Official catalogue of the industrial department , London Exhibition, 1862 |
| Institutions | Archives |
South African History Online : Archives National Archives and Records Service, South Africa Western Cape Archives and Records Service |
| Musea |
Iziko Museums of Cape Town |
| Monuments |
| Libraries |
National Library of South Africa |
| National Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW; Coat of Arms, from
International Civic Arms;
from Armoria Patriae |
| Coins, Banknotes |
Search Coin Archives for Cape of Good Hope |
| Stamps |
Rare Cape of Good Hope,
Natal,
Griqualand West,
Stellaland Stamps, from Sandafayre Stamps Gallery;
Cape of Good Hope,
Griqualand,
Stellaland
Stamps, from Stamps Catalogue 1840-1920 by Evert Klaseboer |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Bibliographies | general |
ISBN Database RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library |
| on Cape Colony | national, official |
| general, other |
| specialist |
Y.G.M. Lulat, U.S. Relations with South Africa :
Books, documents, reports, and monographs, 1991, GB |
| On Cape Colony |
Search Aluka for Cape Colony African Digital Library |
| Online Journals |
African Journal Archive |
| General Accounts |
Robert Ross, A Concise History of South Africa, Cambridge Concise Histories, 1999, 219 pp. Charles H. Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa, Cambridge : UP 2005 Readers Digest Illustrated History of South Africa, Pleasantville NY : Readers Digest, 1988 [G] Christopher Saunders and Iain R. Smith, Southern Africa 1795-1910, pp.597-623 in : Andrew Porter (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol.III : The Nineteenth Century, Oxford : UP 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 909.0971241 O98o v.3 |
| Specific Topics |
| Historical Dictionaries |
| Yearbook Entries |
Article : Cape of Good Hope Province, in : Americana Annual 1927 pp.153-154, 1928 p.137, 1930 p.152, 1931 p.142, 1932 pp.140-141, 1933 pp.135-136, 1934 p.133, 1935 p.127,
1936 p.119, 1937 p.108, 1943 p.135, 1944 p.129 [G] |
