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Title:Estienne Barbier: An Eighteenth Century Cape Social Bandit
Author:Penn, NigelISNI
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.
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