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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"burghers"”.
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Fighting for the spoils : Cape burgerschap and faction disputes in Cape Town in the 1770s
… Patriotte"). In his view they were pre-Afrikaner burghers who, driven by ideological arguments, opposed a colonial VOC tyranny. This thesis aims to revise this analysis, while seeking to demonstrate that late eighteenth century Cape society was marked by a complex and intertwined network of status …
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Kinship, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital: Alcohol Pachters and the Making of Free-Burgher Society in Cape Town, 1652-1795
… employees from its service who settled as free burghers at the Cape of Good Hope. By 1795 their number had grown to almost fifteen thousand. The original free burghers shared the same sociocultural background and were uniformly poor. Yet in the course of the eighteenth century they developed …
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Public Buildings and Civic Pride: Town Halls in Northern Germany, 1200--1618
… of a magnificent town hall was symbolic of their burghers' victory. As architectural symbols of civic pride, the super-extended building histories of the Northern German town also suggest that the very concept of civic pride was fluid, subject to change and refinement, in that what people …
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The Cape government's rule of Basutoland, 1871-1883
… though uneasy, contact with the Free State burghers on their Western boundary, were proving themselves adept at learning the external features of a different civilization while still aligning tenaciously to traditional ideas and forms. Watching over these two major participants was the …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
… was a project of Aachen’s Marienstift and the burghers.
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Civil Reformations: Religion in Dundee and Haddington C.1520-1565
… years of war and plague may have caused the burghers to emphasize civic unity and peace and to avoid religious discord, which muted opposition to the Reformation. Even if they were not yet all enthusiastic Protestants, the openness of the urban laity to religious reforms was a crucial aspect …
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Places of discourse and dialogue : a study in the material culture of the Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company
… of works or texts - a discourse. From 1657 free burghers were given land to farm independently. These farmers were an anomalous group whose view of themselves no longer coincided with the lesser subjectivities structured for them by Dutch East India Company (VOC) documents. Together the latter …
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The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing
… in India and Sri Lanka--Muslims, Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Parsis, and Dalits (earlier described as "untouchables"). I demonstrate that minority writing cannot insert the narrative of the minority--either the individual character or the community--into the larger narrative of the nation (or the …