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The missing people: Accounting for indigenous populations in Cape Colonial history

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  • Erik Green
  • Johan Fourie

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Because information about the livelihoods of indigenous groups is often missing from colonial records, their presence usually escapes attention in quantitative estimates of colonial economic activity. This is nowhere more apparent than in the eighteenth-century Dutch Cape Colony, where the role of the Khoesan in Cape production, despite being frequently acknowledged, has been almost completely […]

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  • Erik Green & Johan Fourie, 2014. "The missing people: Accounting for indigenous populations in Cape Colonial history," Working Papers 425, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:wpaper:425
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    1. The vanquished people
      by Johan Fourie in Johan Fourie's Blog on 2014-03-19 12:34:06

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    Keywords

    Africa; Colonial history; Economic History; Labour Market; South Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • J47 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Coercive Labor Markets
    • N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
    • N37 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Africa; Oceania

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