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Title: | Estienne Barbier: An Eighteenth Century Cape Social Bandit |
Author: | Penn, Nigel |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Social Dynamics |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 1-19 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | The Cape South Africa Netherlands |
Subjects: | rebellions 1739 colonization organized crime History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533958808458437 |
Abstract: | The rebellion of Estienne Barbier against the VOC (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) at the Cape in 1739 has not received the type of historical analysis which its importance merits. This article uses a modified version of Hobsbawm's concept of 'social banditry' (E.J. HOBSBAWM, 'Bandits' (1972)) in order to contextualize Barbier's activities and illuminate three historical phenomena, namely: the nature of the early eighteenth-century Cape colonial State; the existence of class struggle in the remote rural areas of the western Cape; and the pressures and processes behind the expansion of the Cape's frontier. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |