Forty lost years
Subtitle: the apartheid state and the politics of the National Party, 1948-1994
By: Dan O'Meara.
Publisher: Ohio University Press; Ravan Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
Subjects: National Party (South Africa).; Apartheid -- South Africa.; Afrikaners -- Politics and government.; Afrikaners -- Ethnic identity.; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-
Description: Exhaustively researched and fully illustrated with contemporary photographs and cartoons, Forty Lost Years is a multifaceted and subtle analysis of many aspects of South African politics since World War II. The author delves into the nature and functioning of the apartheid economy, the political role of big business and foreign governments, military strategy, the evolution of Afrikaner literature and the NP's changing relationship with the Afrikaner Broederbond.

Underlying his complex and readable narrative is a concern both with the modes of explaining change and the dynamics of the transition process.
Notes: First published by Ravan Press, South Africa 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 557-564) and index.