Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations

Robert Anthony Waters Jr. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2009
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-5063-7 (ISBN)

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The image of Africa among Americans at the beginning of the 21st century is tragic; America's image among Africans is of a place that is splendid but arrogant and unfeeling. Both have large elements of truth. Poverty, coups, corruption, pandemic disease, and tribal, racial, and religious violence are all too common in Africa. So too is Americans' lack of concern about the people of a continent that suffers from these tragedies, as well as their government's support for African governments that treat their people as prey instead of citizens. The Historical Dictionary of United States-Africa Relations encompasses the relationship between the two from the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the George W. Bush administration, with particular emphasis on the Cold War. It focuses on political and economic aspects of the relationship and includes cultural relations. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events, institutions, and organizations.

Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. is visiting assistant professor of History at Ohio Northern University and on leave from Southern University at New Orleans where he is associate professor.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.5.2009
Reihe/Serie	Historical Dictionaries of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 227 mm
Gewicht	744 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8108-5063-X / 081085063X
ISBN-13	978-0-8108-5063-7 / 9780810850637
Zustand	Neuware