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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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'... essential reading for anybody who wishes to understand contemporary South Africa and its historical origins.' - Review of African Political Economy '... probably the most influential account of rural history produced in the 1970s.' - Beinart, Dlius and Trapido (eds), Putting a Plough to the Ground

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