Overview
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.
- | Author: Colin Bundy
- | Publisher: James Currey
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1988
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0852550472
- | ISBN-13: 9780852550472
