The Nationalists In Opposition 1934-1948 by Newell M. Stultz

The Nationalists In Opposition 1934-1948 (Hardcover in Protected Dust Jacket, 1975)

A Scholarly Political History of the National Party's Years in Opposition on the Road to 1948

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: The Nationalists In Opposition 1934-1948
• Author: Newell M. Stultz
• Publisher: Human & Rousseau, Cape Town and Pretoria
• Publication Date: 1975
• ISBN-10: 0798105623
• Edition Details: First published in South Africa. Human & Rousseau edition, Cape Town and Pretoria.
• Binding: Publisher's hardcover with printed dust jacket in yellow and olive with red title lettering and a photographic collage of portraits. Dust jacket protected in a clear sleeve.
• Physical Format: Medium-sized octavo hardcover.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Boards: The boards, spine cloth, corners and edges are concealed beneath the dust jacket and are not described here. The jacket carries the wear detailed below.
• Interior: The title and copyright pages are clean and legible, with no markings.
• The Dust Jacket: Present, protected in a clear Mylar-type sleeve. The yellow and olive jacket shows chipping and small losses at the top left corner, along the left edge and at the bottom edge, with some soiling and marks to the front panel. The spine is toned with spotting and some chipping at the foot.

Synopsis & Historical Value

The Nationalists in Opposition 1934-1948 is a political history of the National Party during the years between the 1934 Fusion split and the general election of 1948. It follows the party from a diminished rump in opposition to the governing party of South Africa.

Stultz argues that the 1948 result owed more to disillusionment with the policies of conciliation than to the appeal of apartheid. The book is a revision of the author's doctoral thesis on the electoral revival of the National Party, and later scholars have cited it as a standard work on the period.

This Human & Rousseau edition was published in South Africa in the mid-1970s, shortly after the American edition issued by the University of California Press under a different title. It remains a useful reference for collectors of South African political history and Afrikaner nationalism.

Author Profile: Newell M. Stultz

Newell Maynard Stultz is an American political scientist who graduated from Dartmouth in 1955 and took his PhD at Boston University in 1965. He joined Brown University that year and became professor emeritus in 2003. He also held posts at Northwestern University, Rhodes University, the University of South Africa and Yale.

His research centres on South African politics and on apartheid at the United Nations, and he has compiled bibliographies on South Africa. His other writings include Transkei's Half Loaf: Race Separatism in South Africa, Who Goes to Parliament? and an article on the evolution of the United Nations anti-apartheid regime.

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