Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa - Couverture souple

Meriwether, James H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1469664224 ISBN 13 : 9781469664224

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Synopsis

In the mid-twentieth century, the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's population. Decolonization, Black and Brown freedom movements, the establishment of the United Nations and NATO, an exploding Cold War, a burgeoning world human rights movement, all became part of the dramatic events that swept through Africa at a furious pace, with fifty nations gaining independence in roughly fifty years. Meanwhile, the United States emerged as the most powerful and influential nation in the world, with the ability--politically, economically, militarily--and principles to help or hinder the transformation of the African continent.

Tears, Fire, and Blood offers a sweeping history of how the United States responded to decolonization in Africa. James H. Meriwether explores how Washington, grappling with national security interests and racial prejudices, veered between strengthening African nationalist movements seeking majority rule and independence and bolstering anticommunist European allies seeking to maintain white rule. Events in Africa helped propel the Black freedom struggle around the world and ultimately forced the United States to confront its support for national ideals abroad as it fought over how to achieve equality at home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James H. Meriwether is professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands, and author of Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1936-1961.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469664224
• ISBN 13: 9781469664224
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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