The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860-1930
Series: African Studies -- 33; African Studies -- 33.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521099554
Description: This book examines in detail how the people of one formerly independent African chiefdom were absorbed into the wider South African society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first two chapters discuss the nature of the pre-colonial polity, changes in agricultural production during the early stages of colonisation, colonial policy and the beginnings of mass labour migrancy up to about 1910. The last three chapters, focusing on the period between about 1910 and 1930, analyse changing patterns of rural production and ...
Table of contents: title: List of Maps; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The political economy Pondoland in the nineteenth century; 2. Crops, cattle and the origins of labou migrancy, 1894-1911; 3. Rural production and the South African state, 1911-193 4. Chiefs and headmen in Pondoland, 1905-1930; 5. Rural differentiation, alliance and conflict, 1910-1930; Postscript; Tables; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.