Putting a plough to the ground : accumulation and dispossession in rural South Africa, 1850-1930 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Beinart, William, Delius, Peter (Peter Nicholas St. Martin), Trapido, Stanley
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1986.
Series:	New history of southern Africa series.
Subjects:	Land tenure > South Africa > History > 19th century. Urbanization > South Africa > History > 19th century. South Africa > Economic conditions > 1918-1961. South Africa > Rural conditions. Urbanisation > Afrique du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle. Afrique du Sud > Conditions économiques > 1918-1961. South Africa. economic history. expropriation. large farms. 15.80 history of Africa. Economic history. Land tenure. Rural conditions. Urbanization. Agrarstruktur Kapitalismus Landwirtschaft Strukturwandel Südafrika Aufsatzsammlung Platteland. Sociaal-economische situatie. Labor and laborers, Agricultural > South Africa. Agricultural history > South Africa. Tenure types, Traditional > South Africa. Agriculture > South Africa > History. Land settlement > South Africa > History. Peasants > South Africa > History. Geschichte (1850-1930) Südafrika (Staat) 1800-1961 Aufsatzsammlung. History.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction / W. Beinart, P. Delius
The origins of capitalist agriculture in the Cape Colony: a survey / R. Ross
Vagabond Hollanders and runaway Englishmen: white poverty in the Cape before poor whiteism / C. Bundy
The Natal sugar industry in the nineteenth century / P. Richardson
Abel Erasmus: power and profit in the Eastern Transvaal / P. Delius
White settlement and black subjugation on the South African highveld: the Tlokoa heartland in the north eastern Orange Free State, ca. 1850-1914 / T. Keegan
Settler accumulation in East Griqualand from the demise of the Griqua to the Natives Land Act / W. Beinart
Irrigation, agriculture and the state: the Harts Valley in historical perspective / K. Shillington
Putting a plough to the ground: a history of tenant production on the Vereeniging Estates, 1896-1920 / S. Trapido
Competition and cooperation in Middelburg, 1900-1930 / R. Morrell
Lynch law and labourers: the ICU in Umvoti, 1927-1928 / H. Bradford.