Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004223899)

Adrien Delmas, Ph.D. (2010) in History, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, is currently reseacher at the European University Institute, Florence. He has published on travel writing in the early modern world, including Les voyages de l'écrit. Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l'époque moderne, essais sur la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales (Honoré Champion, 2011).

Nigel Penn, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Cape Town, is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively in early Cape colonial history including The Forgotten Frontier (University of Ohio Press, 2005).