Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
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Author_Colin Bundy
Capitalist Development
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Colonialism
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Peasantry
Poverty
South African History
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- ISBN 9780852550472
- Weight: 398g
- Dimensions: 135 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1988
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With a Preface reviewing some of the debates prompted by the earlier edition of this book.
The first edition of this book was hailed as a major reinterpretation of South African history. It criticised the prevailing view that African agriculture was primitive or backward, and attacked the notion that poverty and lack ofdevelopment were a result of 'traditionalism'. Bundy's work introduced the idea that by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century capitalist development in South Africa was increasingly hostile to peasant producers and a massive onslaught was launched against them - the understanding of this was vital to an understanding of both the South African past and present.
