Landscape of Conquest
Frontier Water Alienation and Khoikhoi Strategies of Survival, 1652–1780
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20083556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Guelke, Robert Shell |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 113-134 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Agriculture, Resource Exploitation, and Environmental Change (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315263113-7 |
| OpenAlex | W4232301054 |
| ISBN | 9781315263113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The Khoikhoi and San (Khoisan) were the first pre-colonial peoples of southern Africa to experience the impact of European-directed settlement and territorial expansion. In the mid seventeenth century, when the Dutch founded a fort and garden at the Cape, Khoisan pastoralists and hunter-gatherers were in sole possession of vast stretches of south-western Africa. The area of south-western Africa that the Khoisan had inhabited for centuries before European colonisation is a rugged, immense and largely arid land of imposing mountains and vast plains. The Cape Khoikhoi, numbering perhaps 50,000 people in the mid-seventeenth century, were divided into several autonomous groups each with its own political leader and roughly demarcated territory. The hard-working and self-sustaining small holders Van Riebeeck envisaged as the basis for a flourishing colonial agriculture did not materialise. The defeat of Cochoqua leader, Gonnema, gave Europeans continued access to Khoikhoi territory on favourable terms
Alienation · Ancient history · Archaeology · CONQUEST · Frontier · Geography · Political science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2013 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |