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Wagon routes : an introduction -- Peter Kolb's Defence of the "Hottentots" (1719) -- Expeditions from Fort Lijdsaamheijd : the voc and the geography of Southern Africa in the beginning of the eighteenth century -- Trade and science : reports of the VOC expedition by Hendrik Hop from 1761-1762 -- Xhosa and Khoikhoi "households" : representations of inhabitants of Southern Africa in the Gordon atlas -- The adventures of a Surinamese Frenchman in South Africa : the travel accounts of François le Vaillant -- A 'Black legend' of Dutch colonialism in the Travels (1801-1804) of John Barrow -- Batavian colonial politics and travel accounts about South Africa -- The first ethnographic monograph : De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (1810) by Lodewyk Alberti -- Conclusion: Knowledge and colonialism -- Annex 1: Independent editions and translations of Peter Kolb's Capvt bonae spei hodiernvm in the eighteenth century -- Annex 2: Structure of the Nieuwste en beknopte beschryving van de Kaap der Goede-Hope

This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of collective memory to feed into identity models.

Die boek Van Volksmoeder tot Fokofpolisiekar bevat 'n reeks kritiese opstelle oor 'n aantal Afrikaanse kollektiewe herinneringe. Dit betrek herinneringe wat al amper koud is, asook meer onlangses, soos die "De la Rey"--Lied en die rol wat bands tans speel in die vaslegging van 'n bepaalde bewussyn onder die jeug - 'n bewussyn wat in die afsienbare toekoms ook as "histories" sal kwalifiseer. Die boek wil die leser aanmoedig om na te dink oor die herinneringe van wit Afrikaanssprekendes

Preliminary Material /S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin -- Introduction /Siegfried Huigen -- Elias Herckmans. A Poet At The Borders Of Dutch Brazil /Britt Dams -- Officers Of The West India Company, Their Networks, And Their Personal Memories Of Dutch Brazil /Michiel Van Groesen -- The Butterfly Effect. Embodied Cognition And Perceptual Knowledge In Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium /Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- Picturing New Netherland And New York. Dutch-Anglo Transfer Of New World Information /Frans R.E. Blom -- Piracy And Play: Two Catholic Appropriations Of Nieuhof 's Gezantschap /Paul Arblaster -- Knowledge Transfer And Cultural Appropriation: Georg Everhard Rumphius's 'D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer' (1705) /Maria-Theresia Leuker -- Antiquarian Ambonese: François Valentyn's Comparative Ethnography (1724) /Siegfried Huigen -- Engelbert Kaempfer, Imamura Gen'Emon And Arai Hakuseki. An Early Exchange Of Knowledge Between Japan And The Netherlands /Henk De Groot -- Witsen's Studies Of Inner Eurasia /Bruno Naarden -- (Ex)changing Knowledge And Nature At The Cape Of Good Hope, Circa 1652–1700 /Alette Fleischer -- A Badly Harvested Field: The Growth Of Linguistic Knowledge And The Dutch Cape Colony Until 1796 /Hansn De Besten -- Writing History In The Age Of Discovery, According To La Popelinière, 16th–17th Centuries /Adrien Delmas -- The Model Of The VOC In Early Seventeenth-Century France (Hugo Grotius And Pierre Bergeron) /Grégoire Holtz -- 'Aus Den Fürnembsten Indianischen Reisebeschreibungen Zusammengezogen'. Knowledge About India In Early Modern Germany /Antje Flüchter -- The VOC And Swedish Natural History: The Transmission Of Scientific Knowledge In The Eighteenth Century /Christina Skott -- Unknown Unknowns. Ignorance Of The Indies Among Late Seventeenth-Century Scots /Elspeth Jajdelska -- Colonial Objects And The Display Of Power. The Curious Case Of The Cabinet Of William V And The Dutch India Companies /Edwin Van Meerkerk -- Index Nominum /S. Huigen , J. Jong and E. Kolfin.