Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers: early colonial Cape lives By Nigel Penn Paperback 1431422118 9781431422111 History Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers: early colonial Cape lives This work is the long awaited sequel to the historian Nigel Penn’s award winning book Rogues, Rebels and Runaways, in which he entertained and informed readers with stories of the lives of some remarkable characters from early Cape history.In this new volume Penn, a consummate raconteur and storyteller, brings to life an assortment of extraordinary personalities from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. There is Maria Mouton, the first white woman at the Cape to be executed, for her adulterous affair with a slave and the murder of her husband. Then, too, there is Johannes Seidenfaden, an LMS missionary whose ‘enormities’ so shocked Dr John Philip, the LMS superintendent, that he branded him ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’. (Seidenfaden, a married man, had not only attempted to seduce his Khoikhoi housekeeper on five occasions but also turned his mission station of Suurbraak, just outside Swellendam, into his own personal fiefdom and impoverished all the Khoikhoi inhabitants.) Other chapters tell stories of desertion by ill treated soldiers in Cape Town, who intended to escape to Mozambique but got no further than the Hottentots Holland Mountains, where they were apprehended before being hanged; the escapades of the Swiss Meuron Regiment at the Cape; and the ‘ear atrocity’ in the Onder Bokkeveld near Ceres. These remarkable stories, told with élan, erudition and humour, throw light on our extraordinary past and reveal much about social relations and human experience in the early Cape colony. Provided by publisher.

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Nigel Penn has a PhD from the University of Cape Town He has written about the impact of colonialism on the Khoisan societies of southern Africa and on the nature of early colonial society in both the Dutch and British periods He has been awarded the UCT Book Award three times and won a Choice Award from the American Library Association in 2007 He is interested in using the techniques of microhistory and cultural history to illuminate the contacts that occurred between different societies and individuals in the colonial context of southern Africa and Australia. Book Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers brewery This work is the long awaited sequel to the historian Nigel Penn s award winning book Rogues.

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Rebels and Runaways in which he entertained and informed readers with stories of the lives of some remarkable characters from early Cape history. EBook Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers In this new volume Penn a consummate raconteur and storyteller brings to life an assortment of extraordinary personalities from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries There is Maria Mouton the first white woman at the Cape to be executed for her adulterous affair with a slave and the murder of her husband Then too there is Johannes Seidenfaden an LMS missionary whose enormities so shocked Dr John Philip the LMS superintendent that he branded him a wolf in sheep s clothing Seidenfaden a married man had not only attempted to seduce his Khoikhoi housekeeper on five occasions but also turned his mission station of Suurbraak just outside Swellendam into his own personal fiefdom and impoverished all the Khoikhoi inhabitants Other chapters tell stories of desertion by ill treated soldiers in Cape Town who intended to escape to Mozambique but got no further than the Hottentots Holland Mountains where they were apprehended before being hanged the escapades of the Swiss Meuron Regiment at the Cape and the ear atrocity in the Onder Bokkeveld near Ceres These remarkable stories told with lan erudition and humour throw light on our extraordinary past and reveal much about social relations and human experience in the early Cape colony Provided by publisher Murderers miscreants and mutineers early colonial Cape livesVery interesting but needed to be in a quiet room to concentrate as like a textbook Consequently it took a while to get through but was full of fascinating information Very well researched it seemed too 1431422118 I thoroughly enjoyed this book I think it provides good insight to the complexities of early colonial lives It highlights the complex and often unexpected relationships that formed between the indigenous people of the Cape and the settlers It may be a bit challenging for readers that are not familiar with the Cape area since there is a lot of references to places and geographical regions Perhaps I enjoyed the book because I am familiar with the areas Penn referred to Nevertheless this is a highly informative and easy to read book for anyone that is interested on the subject of slavery colonialism and sociology of the Cape during the 1700s 1800s period 1431422118 This book is obviously very specific in the time period geographic area and topic. Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers bookkeeping If you are not living in South Africa or have at least some connection to it this will probably a bit strange or boring to you BUT if you have at least some sense to what this is about then it is a good book to buy read or give as a present to interesented like minded people It is written by Professor Nigel Penn that currently works and lives in Cape Town He can be described as far as I know as a proper Historian of this period and area. Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers pdfescape The characters and stories that Penn describes are fascinating Here and there he goes in Details that I dont personally find so important but there are few of that moments Every story can be read apart The quality of the material of the book is nice as n paperback although some pictures would have been nice me being a child of the 21th Century and all.Worth your time and money 1431422118

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