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The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
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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 of development 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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wright, M., & Bundy, C.
- Venue
- The International Journal of African Historical Studies
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1980
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 337
- ISSN
- 0361-7882 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1520520465
- Cited by
- 839
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 85.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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