Review of the monograph: Gesine Krüger, Schrift – Macht – Alltag: Lesen und Schreiben im kolonialen Südafrika, Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau, 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20116-6, 363 pp.

Employing recently assembled wage and price data, this paper sketches the long-term development of real wages at the Cape of Good Hope, from its foundation in 1652 up to the unification of South Africa in 1910. The results show that real wages were consistently above subsistence level, and...

This review essay will survey some of the recent historical production seeking to redefine or redirect the study of the Brazilian colonial past. Until recently, modern historiography on Brazil reflected heavy concentration on political economy, the colonial arrangement, the issues related to...