Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”. This retail business was organised on the so- called lease or monopoly (pacht) system whereby a person paid the...
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2015-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://newcontree.org.za/index.php/nc/article/view/164 |