Historical tax records reveal biases and limits of administrative data.Markets were shaped by social ties, not just prices or ...

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work.

OBSERVATIONS of rainfall were begun in the colony about forty-five years ago, but until 1876 no general system of registration was in force; and, except in the case of the Royal Observatory and a few ...

RICHMOND, VA—The Dutch East India Company established a small settlement at what is now Cape Town in 1652. The initial purpose of the settlement was to provide a rest stop and supply station for ...

THE Report of Consul Siler, the United States representative at Cape Colony, which has been just issued, contains a full account of the present state of forestry in that country. He says that of the ...