Tears, fire, and blood : the United States and the decolonization of Africa / James H. Meriwether.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meriwether, James Hunter, 1963- author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--Africa--History--20th century.

Decolonization.

United States--Foreign relations--Africa.

United States.

Africa--Foreign relations--United States.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : map ;

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]

Summary:

In the mid-twentieth century, decolonization fundamentally changed foreign relations as it converged with Black and Brown freedom movements, the establishment of the United Nations and NATO, an exploding Cold War, and a burgeoning world human rights movement. Dramatic events swept through Africa at a furious pace, with fifty nations gaining independence in roughly fifty years, as the struggle against colonial rule fundamentally reshaped the world and the lives of the majority of the world's population. Meanwhile, the United States emerged as the most powerful and influential nation in the world, with the ability-politically, economically, militarily, and morally-to help or hinder the transformation of the African continent. This book offers a sweeping history of how the United States responded to decolonization in Africa.

Contents:

No Premature Independence, 1941-1951

No Stopping the Torrent, 1952-1960

Years of Africa, 1960-1966

The White Redoubt, 1965-1974

Rapid, Just, and African Solutions, 1974-1980

Majority Rule, 1980-1994.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 29, 2023).

Previously issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

979-88-908825-5-4

979-88-908825-6-1

1-4696-6424-0

OCLC:

1277047535