Cape Town: The Making of a City - Nigel Worden et al

This social history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule traces the changing character of the city and portrays the varied lives and experiences of its inhabitants black and white, rich and poor, slave and free, Christian and Muslim. Beginning in the seventeenth century with the tiny Dutch settlement, the book charts the growth of Cape Town over almost three centuries, ending with the British colonial city, poised confidently on the threshold of the twentieth century. The story told in these pages is both immensely readable and endlessly interesting, and is sure to remain for long the definitive history of the city.

The volume is illustrated throughout with a wealth of paintings, maps and photographs.