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Title: | Explaining ship traffic fluctuations at the early Cape settlement 1652-1793 |
Authors: | Boshoff, Willem H. Fourie, Johan |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | South African Journal of Economic History |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 1-27 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa The Cape |
Subjects: | economic history maritime transport |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430809511206 |
Abstract: | The first Europeans to settle in South Africa arrived at the Cape in 1652 to establish a halfway station for ships sailing between Europe and the East Indies under the command of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Using new data from the three-volume publication 'Dutch-Asiatic shipping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' by J.R. Bruijn, F.S. Gaastra and I. Schöffer (1979-1987), the present authors examine the historical growth and decline of Dutch ship traffic in Table Bay during the period of VOC control (1652-1793). New econometric techniques on business cycle analysis enable the identification of medium-term fluctuations. Historical evidence supports the empirical results. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |