The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Wright (0000-0002-4851-3695), Colin Bundy (0009-0004-8553-2942) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 337 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/218883 |
| OpenAlex | W1520520465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 338 |
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
Ancient history · Political science · History · Land Rights and Reforms · Legal Issues in South Africa
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
Conclusion
Modernity’s Rush
The Insurrectionist Moment
Surviving on the Move
Reversible Comparisons
Historiografías del Trabajo Social Sudafricano
Becoming a Good Farmer—Becoming a Good Farm Worker
‘The ghost of environmental history’
Ethnographic evidence versus theoretical models
Centring ordinary people
The Agribusiness Model in South African Land Reform? Land Use Implications for the Land Reform Beneficiaries
Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in South Africa
New emerging peasantry and local food
A concealed economy’
Negotiating the boundaries of farmerhood
Why Is Africa Poor
Labour Control and the Establishment of Profitable Settler Agriculture in Colonial Kenya, c. 1920–45
The African Middle Class in South Africa 1910–1994
Indigenous Foods in Decline? A Study on Changing Consumption Patterns Within the Barolong Boo Ratshidi Community, Northwest Province of South Africa
My children, your children, our children? Fathers, female partners and household structures
The Gate
“A Persistent Truth”—Reflections on Drought Risk Management in Southern Africa
If the Hat Fits
The Political Economy of Nature
Marx and the mirage of change
Understanding gender, sexuality and HIV risk in HEIs
Using participatory and visual arts-based methodologies to promote sustainable teaching and learning ecologies
Decolonisation and comparative land reform with a special focus on Africa
A Bad Lot’
Re-thinking agricultural development in South Africa
J.S. Marais, a great South African historian
South Africa’s social transformation policies
Reconsidering the macro-narrative in global history
A systemic framework for context-based decision making in natural resource management
Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920
Land and Justice in South Africa
The Unsettling Side of Death
Getting Your Own Back
Madam & Eve
Ability in disability enacted in the National Parliament of South Africa
The Missionary Impact
African Colonial Economies
Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Labour reserves and surplus populations
Such elements do not belong in an ordered society
Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province
Farm Workers and Farm Dwellers inLimpopo Province,SouthAfrica
Rural Livelihoods inSouthAfrica
A New System of Labour Management in African Large-Scale Agriculture
The Lived Experience of Food Sovereignty
Black Power in the Boardroom
Land reform in South Africa and the colonial present
Vulnerability interventions in the context of multiple stressors
Green Doesn't Always Mean ‘Go’
Transition politique, « paysans » et « entrepreneurs agricoles » en Afrique australe
Gandhi, Indian Opinion , and the Making of Indo–south African Identity, 1903–14
Settler colonialism and migrant letters
The Necessity of Universalism
Political compromise on land reform
Local economic development and the municipal services crisis in post-apartheid South Africa
From resistance to development
Women and Land in the Rural Crisis
The policy-practice gap
Agricultural labour dynamics in small-scale farming systems in rural South Africa
Local circumstances matter
Teachers’ perceptions and students’ lived experiences in Vocational–Technical subjects in a rural high school in Zimbabwe
How White Agriculture (Re)Positioned Itself for a 'New South Africa
Living on Other People’s Land; Impacts of Farm Conversions to Game Farming on Farm Dwellers’ Abilities to Access Land in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Letters
The significance of African vegetables in ensuring food security for South Africa’s rural poor
Vernacular Land Markets and the Changing Face of Customary Land Tenure in Africa
Når tausheten gjøres eksplisitt
Social drivers and differentiated effects of deagrarianisation
Through the ‘Thick and Thin’ of farming on the Wild Coast, South Africa
Sugarcane farming in KwaZulu
Creating employment and reducing emissions
Gathered produce in Zimbabwe's communal areas changing resource availability and use
History with a Mission
To Make Them Serve”
Ethnic nationalism' and structured unemployment
Dimensions of drought
Rural land use and agricultural production in Dinokana Village, Bophuthatswana
Teach the native to play
Teaching development geography
The British Empire in the Culture War
Missionaries, black converts, and separatists on the Rand, 1886–1910
Mill girls’ and ‘mine boys’
The rise and decline of an Indian peasantry in Natal
The theory and practice of the agrarian question in South African socialism, 1928–60
Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy
Contested paradigms of 'viability' in redistributive land reform
The sharecropping economy on the South African Highveld in the early twentieth century
The reconstruction of a rural life from oral testimony
The agrarian question and class contradictions in South Africa
The political economy of the maizefilière
South Africa's agrarian question
African Enclosures
Apartheid
South African land policy
| Unique citing works | 338 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,19 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2025 (47) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |