Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of the National Party, 1948-1994 - Softcover

Dan O'Meara

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9780821411735: Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of the National Party, 1948-1994

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ISBN 10: 082141173X ISBN 13: 9780821411735

Publisher: Ravan Press, 1997

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An analysis of the rise and demise of the National Party's long and violent rule in South Africa, which offers unique insight into the bleakest period in South African politics the years from D.F. Malan's surprise victory in the 1948 election to the concession of power by F.W. de Klerk and South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. Topics include the nature and functioning of the apartheid economy, the political role of big business and foreign governments, and the evolution of Afrikaner literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Dan O'Meara is currently on the faculty of the Political Science department at l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal.

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