Browsing by Author "Lumby, Anthony Bernard."

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Aspects of land and labour in Kenya, 1919-1939.
(1980) Lind Holmes, S. M.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.
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Class, race and gender : the political economy of women in colonial Natal.
(1982) Beall, Josephine Dianne.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.
Colonial Natal has become an increasingly popular field of investigation for historians of Southern Africa over the last decade or so. This trend is not premature or " irrelevant for, although not demonstrating" the economic impact of the diamond-mining industry of the Cape, or the gold-mining industry of the Transvaal, the political " economy of nineteenth century Natal played a significant role in forming patterns of South African social and economic development, as well as attitudes towards this, not least of all in terms of labour exploitation. The history of Natal during this period has been lacking by and large in what I consider to be two important aspects. Firstly, the colony, on the whole, has been neglected by Marxist and radical historians; and secondly, the history of women in South Africa, as yet a nascent area of research in itself, has not included an attempt to date, understand the lives of those women who lived along the south-east coastal belt of Southern Africa, between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean. This study strives to be a preliminary step in the direction of redressing this imbalance, by offering an introductory exposition on the political economy of women in colonial Natal.
A computable dynamic bioeconomic model of the optimal utilisation and management of South Africa's renewable marine resources : a case study of the hake fishery.
(1997) Saville, Adrian David.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.
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The Customs Tariff and the development of secondary industry in South Africa with special reference to the period 1924-1939.
(1974) Lumby, Anthony Bernard.; Duminy, Andrew Hadley.; Allan, I. K.
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The development of African agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with particular reference to the interwar years.
(1979) Punt, Eira.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.
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Economic rationality or religious idealism : the medieval doctrines of the just price and the prohibition of usury.
(1982) Anderson, J. J.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.
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The Natal Land and Colonisation Company in colonial Natal, 1860 - 1890.
(1991) Edley, Jennifer Joyce Anderson.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.
The Natal Land and Colonisation Company was incorporated in 1860 in London. Its capital was partly subscribed by City financiers, the rest being made up of land obtained from Natal land speculators in exchange for fully-paid-up shares. On the basis of very little research, it has been assumed that it was a land-speculation company which held its land against an expected rise in value and rack-rented to black squatters. The deduction has been that this kept land out of the reach of white settlers and thus retarded the development of the white economy. Study of the Company records has shown this view to be entirely erroneous. The primary objective of the Company was to borrow surplus capital in Britain at a low interest rate and invest it in Natal at a higher rate. The landholdings of the Company were used as collateral for raising funds on the London market or sold, when the market permitted to release capital for reinvestment. Only the profit on land sales was distributed to shareholders. This relatively straightforward plan of operation was modified between 1860 and 1890 in reaction to changing economic circumstances in Natal. The Company initially lent large sums on mortgage, but a severe depression between 1865 and 1869 led to large-scale defaulting on repayments and the Company was forced to foreclose. This vastly increased the Company's rural landholdings, and brought in several established plantations and a large number of urban properties. The Company invested unsuccessfully, in the plantation economy, was prevented by the colonial and imperial governments from investing in railway and coal-mining development and, owing to a poor land market, sold only a small proportion of its land. For income, it relied on leasing land to white settlers, renting urban properties and collecting hut-rents from black squatters. This last practice brought it into conflict with white settler interests as it gave blacks an alternative to wage-labour. The Witwatersrand gold discoveries stimulated economic development in Natal, particularly urban development, and the Company finally found a profitable and stable investment area in urban property.