Cape Town : the making of a city : an illustrated social history / Nigel Worden, Elizabeth van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith.

Main entry:

Worden, Nigel.

Title & Author:

Cape Town : the making of a city : an illustrated social history / Nigel Worden, Elizabeth van Heyningen, Vivian Bickford-Smith.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Cape Town : David Philip, 2004.

Description:

285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"This richly illustrated history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule tells the story of its residents, the world they inhabited and the city they made - beginning in the seventeenth century with the tiny Dutch settlement, hemmed in by mountains and looking out to sea, and ending with the well-established British colonial city, poised confidently on the threshold of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0864866569 (pbk.)
9780864866561 (pbk.)

Subject:

Manners and customs.
Social conditions
Cape Town (South Africa) History.
Cape Town (South Africa) Social conditions.
Cape Town (South Africa) Social life and customs.
South Africa Cape Town.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Van Heyningen, Elizabeth.
Bickford-Smith, Vivian.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316508
Call No.: 316508
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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