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The United States and Africa

A History

L H Gann author Peter Duignan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:24th Apr '87

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This study traces the reciprocal relationship between Africa and America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards.

Tracing the reciprocal relationship between Africa and North America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards, two leading authorities in the field provide a major revision to traditional colonial African history as well as to US history. Departing from prior accounts that tended to emphasise only the role of the colonial metropoles in developing Africa, the authors show how American pioneers - missionaries, traders, prospectors, miners, engineers, scientists, and others - have helped to shape Africa. They also point to the equally important impact made by Africa on the United States through trade and immigration, and through the influence of Africans on the arts and agriculture, among other facets of American life. In a study of exceptionally broad scope, the authors devote particular attention to the development of United States policy regarding Africa, the impact of private enterprise, the operation of governmental lobbies, the administration of foreign aid, and the involvement of Africa in the Cold War.

'This remains a significant book, comprehensive in scope and balanced in treatment.' American Historical Review 'A solid researched and detailed account of the relations between Americans and Africa, and to a lesser extent of Africans with the U.S.A., since the founding of the Republic. Specific attention is given throughout to the role of Afro-Americans in this relationship.' Journal of Southern History 'There is something for everyone in this rich cavalcade of Americans' experience of Africa and of Africans' experience of America.' West Africa

ISBN: 9780521335713

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 30mm

Weight: 685g

468 pages