Prof. dr. R.J. (Robert) Ross
Position:
- Professor
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2232 |
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| E-Mail: | r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Talen en culturen van Afrika |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 3 2311 BV Leiden Room number 304B |
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2232 |
| E-Mail: | r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Talen en culturen van Afrika |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 3 2311 BV Leiden Room number 304B |
Fields of interest
- Colonial South Africa, especially the Cape Colony—slavery, religion, economy, government and the frontier
- Black consumption patterns in Southern Africa since the mineral revolution
- The global homogenisation of world material culture, especially clothing.
Research
Summary of research project:
1. Cambridge history of South Africa
2. The Kat River valley, 1829-1860
3. Clothing: a global history
Curriculum vitae
Born in London, studied in Cambridge, Ph.D (1974) on the history of the Griquas in central South Africa. Since 1976 in Leiden, as coordinator and (later) professor in African history. My teaching has been in the BA degree course Languages and Cultures of Africa, and the MAs (including the Research MA) on African Studies. In addition to my specialised research, I have written general works on South African history, notably being involved as senior editor in the Cambridge History of South Africa (Cambridge,, Cambridge UP, 2010 and 2012)
Publications
- (2010) Ross, R.J. & Hamilton, C.A. & Mbenga, B.K. (Eds.)
Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press - (2008) Ross, R.J. Clothing: a Global History; or the Imperialists’ New Clothes. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- (2003) “Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856”, Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History, Jon Abbink, Mirjam de Bruijn & Klaas van Walraven (eds.), Leiden & Boston, Brill, pp. 117 – 141.
- (1999) A Concise History of South Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. xv + 219.
- (1999) Status and respectability at the Cape of Good Hope: A Tragedy of Manners, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.xii + 203.
- (1993) Beyond the Pale: Essays on the History of Colonial South Africa, Hanover and London, Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, pp. xii + 270.
- (1983) Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London.
2011
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Ross, R.J. & Mager, A.K. & Nasson, W. (2011)
Introduction. In: Ross., R.J., Mager, A.K., Nasson, W (Eds.), Cambridge History of South Africa, vol II, 1885-1994, pp. 1-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ross, R.J. & Mager, A.K. & Nasson, W. (Eds.) (2011)
The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2, 1885-1994,. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(Book editorial)
2010
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Ross, R.J. & Hamilton, C.A. & Mbenga, B.K. (Eds.) (2010)
Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ross, R.J. & Legassick, M.C. (2010)
From Slave Economy to Settler Capitalism: The Cape Colony and Its Extensions, 1800–1854. In: Ross, R.J., Hamilton, C.A., Mbenga, B.K. (Eds.), Cambridge History of South Africa, volume I, pp. 253-318. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (2010)
Khoesan and Immigrants: The Emergence of Colonial Society in the Cape, 1500–1800. In: Ross, R.J., Hamillton, C.A., Mbenga, B.K. (Eds.), Cambridge History of South Africa, volume I, pp. 168-209. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (2010)
Martin Legassick, the Griqua and the beginnings of South Africa’s historiographical revival. In: Legassick, MC (Ed.), The Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Missionaries, 1780-1840, pp. xii-xxii. Basel9783905758146: Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
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Ross, R.J. & Hamilton, C.A. & Mbenga, B.K. (2010)
The Production of Preindustrial South African History. In: Ross, R.J., Hamilton, C.A., Mbenga, B.K. (Eds.), Cambridge History of South Africa vol I, pp. 1-63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (2010)
“’De algemene geschiedenis is hem een onding’; Fruin en de Wereldgeschiedenis”. In: Paul, H & Velde, H, te (Eds.), Het Vaderlandse Verleden: Robert Fruin en de vaderlandse geschiedenis, pp. 175-194. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.
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2009
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Ross, R.J. & Kirkaldy, A & Jeanerrat, C (2009)
Introduction: Christian Missions in Southern Africa. South African Historical Journal, 61 (2), pp. 213-215.
(Article)
2008
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Ross, R.J. (2008)
A history of the early days of Cape Colonial slavery. [Bespreking van: Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1717]. In: Journal of Southern African Studies, 34, p. 455.
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Ross, R.J. (2008)
Clothing: a Global History; or the Imperialists’ New Clothes. Cambridge: Polity Press.
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Ross, R.J. (2008)
Preface. In: Gewald, J.B., Hinfelaar, M., Macola, G. (Eds.), One Zambia, many nations (Afrikastudiecentrum series), 12. , pp. ix-xi. Leiden: Brill.
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2006
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Ross, R.J. (2006)
105 Kaappstad: Slave Lodge; Zwart en wit in Zuid-Afrika. In Prak, M. (Ed.) Plaatsen van Herinnering: Nederland in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw (pp. 366-375). Amsterdam: Bert Bakker.
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Ross, R.J. (2006)
Comparisons and Ways forward. In Worden, N. (Ed.) Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World (pp. 602-612). Cape Town: University of Cape Town.
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Ross, R.J. (2006)
Cross-continental cross-fertilization in clothing. European Review, 14 (1), pp. 135-147.
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Ross, R.J. (2006)
Economic history of the Merina Empire. [Bespreking van: An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and fall of an Island Empire]. In: Journal of African History, 47, pp. 151-153.
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Ross, R.J. (2006)
Mission Life and Sources in the Eastern Cape. [Bespreking van: Moravians in the Eastern Cape, 1828-1928: Four accounts of Moravian mission work on the Eastern Cape Frontier]. In: Journal of African History, 47, pp. 154-156.
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Ross, R.J. (2006)
Sumptuary Laws in Europe, the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies. In Worden, N. (Ed.) Contingent Lives: Social Identity and Material Culture in the VOC World (pp. 382-391). Cape Town: University of Cape Town.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2005
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Ross, R.J. & Koolhof, S. (2005)
Upas, September and the Bugis at the Cape of Good Hope: the context of a slave's letter. Archipel, 70, pp. 281-308.
(Article)
2004
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
"Horse troop in Hottentots Holland", "Travelling and ploughing at the Cape", "Khoikhoi and colonist wagons on the Cape Flats", & "Card evening". In Bruin, M., de & Raben, R. (Eds.) The World of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808: drawings of a Dutch traveller in Batavia, Ceylon and Southern Africa (pp. 367-384). Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Aparteid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's national Past]. In: Kronos: journal of Cape History, 30, pp. 254-256.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Discourses of race and class in Britain and South AFrica. [Bespreking van: Bringing the Emprie Home: Race, Class and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa]. In: Journal of African History, 45, pp. 509-510.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Ethnic competition and claims to Land in South Africa: the Kat River valley, Eastern Cape. In Engerman, S.L. & Metzer, J. (Eds.) Land Rights, Ethno-nationalism and Sovereignty in History (pp. 294-317). Lodon/New York: Routledge.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Hermanus Matroos, aka Ngxukumeshe: a life on the border. Kronos: journal of Cape History, 30, pp. 47-69.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Hoe God Zuid-Afrika Zegende. (oratie). Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.p. 20.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp. In Harrison, B. & Matthew, C. (Eds.) New Dictionary of National BiographyOxford: Oxford University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
John Philip. In Harrison, B. & Matthew, C. (Eds.) New Dictionary of National BiographyOxford: Oxford University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (2004)
Remaking the nations: Afrikaners and Afrikanerdom. [Bespreking van: The Afrikaners: Biography of a People]. In: Journal of Southern African Studies, 30, pp. 518-519.
(Book review)
2003
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Ross, R.J. (2003)
Ambiguities of resistance and collaboration on the Eastern Cape Frontier: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856. In Abbink, J., Bruijn, M., de, Walraven, K., van (Eds.) Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History (pp. 117-141). Leiden/Boston: Brill.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2001
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Ross, R.J. (2001)
Review. [Bespreking van: Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius]. In: Journal of Southern African Studies, 27
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Ross, R.J. (2001)
The Photographic Presentation of South Africa, 1874 and 1923. Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History, 25, pp. 142-153.
(Article)
2000
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Ross, R.J. (2000)
Review. [Bespreking van: State, Civil Society and Apartheid in South Africa: An Examination of Dutch Reformed Church-State Relations]. In: Canadian Journal of African Studies
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Ross, R.J. (2000)
Review. [Bespreking van: De Kaap de Goede Hoop: een Nederlandse vestingskolonie, 1680-1730]. In: Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis
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Ross, R.J. (2000)
Review. [Bespreking van: African Apocalypse: The story of Notetha Nkwenkwe¿ a Twentieth-century South African Prophet]. In: H-Safrica
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Ross, R.J. (2000)
The Dutch as Globalisers in the Western Basin of the Indian Ocean? In Evers, S.J.T.M. & Hookoomsingh, V.Y. (Eds.) Globalisation and the South-West Indian Ocean (pp. 7-16). Reduit/Leiden: University of Mauritius & International Institute for Asian.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1999
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Ross, R.J. (1999)
A Concise History of South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (1999)
Congregations, Missionaries and the Grahamstown Schism of 1842-3. In: Gruchy, J., de (Ed.), The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa: historical essays in celebration of the bicentenary of the LMS in Southern Africa, 1799-1999, pp. 120/210-131/212. Cape Town: David Philip.
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Ross, R.J. (1999)
Missions, respectability and civil rights: the Cape Colony, 1828-1854. Journal of Southern African Studies, 25 (3), pp. 333-345.
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Ross, R.J. (1999)
Protestzangers en weglopers. Zuidelijk Afrika: Kwartaalblad over Zuidelijk Afrika, III (1), pp. 24-25.
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Ross, R.J. (1999)
Status and respectability at the Cape of Good Hope: A Tragedy of Manners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(Book (monograph))
1998
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
Adam Kok. In: Middleton, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Africa South of the SaharaNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Namibia]. In: Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland, XXX, pp. 158-159.
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
Commentary on Hermann Giliomee, 'Explaining South Africa's Democratic 'Miracle''. In: Kuitenbrouwer, M. & Werff, N., van der (Eds.), Incomplete Transitions in Southern Africa (Unitwin series), 1. , pp. 71-75. Utrecht
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
Recensie. [Bespreking van: The San and the Colonization of the Cape, 1770-1879]. In: Journal of African History
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
The Dutch in Africa, 1600-1800. In: Middleton, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of South Africa South of the SaharaNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
Towards A Concise History of South Africa. European Review of History, pp. 283-289.
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Ross, R.J. (1998)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and missionaries in Early Nineteenth-Century Namibia]. In: Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland, XXX, pp. 158-159.
(Book review)
1997
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Ross, R.J. (1997)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Griqua records: the Philippolos captaincy, 1825-1861]. In: Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland, XXIX
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Ross, R.J. (1997)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: De Weg naar Monomotapa: Nederlandstalige representaties van geografische, historische en sociale werkelijkheid in Zuid-Afrika]. In: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden
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Ross, R.J. (1997)
Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order. [Bespreking van: Grahamstown versus Cape Town]. In: Suid Afrikaanse Historiese Joernaal / South African Historical Journal, 36, pp. 277-283.
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Ross, R.J. (1997)
Combatting Spiritual and Social Bondage: early missions in the Cape Colony. In: Elphick, R. & Davenport, R. (Eds.), Christianity in South Africa: a political, social and cultural history, pp. 31/403-50/409. Cape Town: David Philip.
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Ross, R.J. (1997)
Conference report: Khoisan identities and cultural heritage. Kronos: journal of Cape History, 24, pp. 154-155.
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Ross, R.J. (1997)
The Kat River, Rebellion and Khoikhoi nationalism: the fate of an ethnic identification. Kronos: journal of Cape History, 24, pp. 91-105.
(Article)
1996
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Afrika en die wereldoorlogen. De Baobab, 11 (4), pp. 4-6.
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Obdeijn, H.L.M. & Ross, R.J. (1996)
Afrika na 1945. In: Bosscher, D. (Ed.), De wereld na 1945, pp. 425-449. Utrecht: NN.
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: The Journal and Selected letters of Rev. William J.Shresbury, 1826-1835: First Missionary to the Transkei]. In: Kronos: journal of Cape History, 23, pp. 168-169.
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Einiqualand. [Bespreking van: Einiqualand: Studies of the Orange River Frontier]. In: South African Archaeological Bulletin
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. [Bespreking van: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa]. In: Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Getting to the New South Africa from the Old. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19 (2), pp. 438-444.
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Les Africaine. [Bespreking van: Les Africaines: Histoire des femmes d'Afrique noire du XIXe au XXe siècle]. In: Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Slavery in South Africa. [Bespreking van: Slavery in South Africa: Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier]. In: Journal of African History
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
Strategies of Slaves & Women. [Bespreking van: Strategies of Slaves & Women: Life-stories from East/Central Africa]. In: Social Dynamics
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Ross, R.J. (1996)
The Self-Image of Jacob Adams. In: Skotnes, P. (Ed.), Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen, pp. 61-66. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1995
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Ross, R.J. (1995)
Abolitionism, the Batavian Republic, the British and the Cape Colony. In: Oostindie, G. (Ed.), Fifty Years Later: The Netherlands and Abolitionism, pp. 179-192. Leiden: KITLV.
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Ross, R.J. (Ed.) (1995)
Missions and Christianity in South African History. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press.
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Ross, R.J. (1995)
Paternalism, Patriarchy and Afrikaans. Suid Afrikaanse Historiese Joernaal / South African Historical Journal, 32, pp. 34-47.
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Ross, R.J. (1995)
The social and political theology of Western Cape missions. In: Bredekamp, H. & Ross, R. (Eds.), Missions and Christianity in South African History, pp. 97-112. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand UP.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1990
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Arkel, D., van & Haar, Barend J., ter & Lucassen, Leo & Ramakers, Jan & Ross, R.J. (Eds.) (1990)
Van Oost naar West. Racisme als mondiaal verschijnsel. Baarn: Ambo.
(Book editorial)
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