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From the Congo to Soweto : U.S. foreign policy toward Africa since 1960 / created by Henry F. Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : William Morrow and Company 1982.Description: 324 pages illustrations 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0688007724
Subject(s):
Contents:
Chapter 1 The Congo: emergence of the United States, 2 - Angloa : rise of the cold war in Africa, 3 - Egypt: Sadat and the decline of U.S.power, 4 - Afro-Americans and Africa: the unbroken link, 5 - U.S. Economic reliance on Africa, 6 - U.S. Military and strategic stakes, 7 - Soweto: decision time for U.S. policy in South Africa
Summary: This provocative study touches all the bases, probing the important cases of U.S. involvement in Africa (the Congo, Angola, South Africa), laying out U.S. interests in Africa's minerals and strategic outposts, and depicting the concern of American blacks with Africa since the nineteenth century. Riding his theses rather hard, Jackson argues strongly against an ineluctable U.S. tendency to react in cold-war terms to African crises.
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Book Book School of Social Work Library Open Shelf DT38.7 JAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 151547 Available BK138659

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1 The Congo: emergence of the United States, 2 - Angloa : rise of the cold war in Africa, 3 - Egypt: Sadat and the decline of U.S.power, 4 - Afro-Americans and Africa: the unbroken link, 5 - U.S. Economic reliance on Africa, 6 - U.S. Military and strategic stakes, 7 - Soweto: decision time for U.S. policy in South Africa

This provocative study touches all the bases, probing the important cases of U.S. involvement in Africa (the Congo, Angola, South Africa), laying out U.S. interests in Africa's minerals and strategic outposts, and depicting the concern of American blacks with Africa since the nineteenth century. Riding his theses rather hard, Jackson argues strongly against an ineluctable U.S. tendency to react in cold-war terms to African crises.

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