The Repercussions of Rinderpest
Cattle Plague and Peasant Decline in Colonial Natal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3910835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Ballard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 421 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/218974 |
| OpenAlex | W2257146679 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
The 1890s and early 1900s were difficult years for many agricultural throughout much of African continent, particularly eastern and southern regions. The causes of severe crop and stock losses among farmers, and attendant social and political repercussions that followed in wake of destruction, are squarely attributable to a cluster of natural disasters. The African continent, from Somaliland in north to Cape Colony in south, reeled under effects of first a locust plague, and then dreaded cattle epidemics of rinderpest and East Coast Fever. These afflictions were punctuated by a series of prolonged droughts that further crippled agriculturalists.1 The natural disasters that occurred at turn of twentieth century have been pointed to as important re-inforcing factors that contributed to decline of southern African peasant communities.2 In German colony of Tanganyika, rinderpest is claimed to have broken the economic backbone of many of most prosperous and advanced communities and initiated break-down of a longestablished ecological balance and placed nature again at an advantage.3 The repercussions of rinderpest epidemic on British colony of Natal were also severe as an examination of conjunction of this dreaded cattle plague with
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2022 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |