Ethnic Pride And Racial Prejudice In Victorian Cape Town by Vivian Bickford-Smith

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Ethnic Pride And Racial Prejudice In Victorian Cape Town by Vivian Bickford-SmithISBN: 1868142892 Wits University Press (November 30, 1995) Soft Cover, 307 pages Nineteenth century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers and foster the development of a sophisticated and colour blind English merchant class. Vivian Bickford Smith skillfully interweaves

and Daniels

soldiers and missionaries that drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries

and fellow-feeling is the mainstay of human relationships

Throughout the text emphasis is placed on linking mineral properties with broader geological processes

including contributors from all of the major regions and language groups of South Africa

family and personal desires

The collection of essays provides the groundwork for further exploratory studies across cultures and genres

Naipaul writes with prescient wisdom and crackling wit about the lives and legends that make up Miguel Street: a living theatre

unambitious life

moral and spiritual origins of man's existence

Sula is a woman of uncompromising power

'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Julian Barnes