Philip E. Muehlenbeck

Betting on the Africans

John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders

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Produktbeschreibung

Betting on the Africans is a study of John F. Kennedy's strategy for improving U.S.-African relations through the use of personal diplomacy to court African nationalist leaders and the ramifications that policy had for U.S. relations with its more traditional allies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9780199380718
• ISBN-10: 0199380716
• Artikelnr.: 40137678

Autorenporträt

Philip E. Muehlenbeck is a Professor Lecturer in the Department of History at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: JFK and the "Greatest Revolution in Human History"
* Abbreviations
* Part One
* 1: 'More Royalist than the Queen': Eisenhower/Dulles Policy toward
Africa
* 2: JFK's Early Support of African Nationalism
* 3: Kennedy, Sékou Touré, and the Success of Personal Diplomacy
* 4: Kennedy, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Volta River Project Decision
* 5: Kennedy, Julius Nyerere, and Self-Determination in Southern Africa
* 6: Kennedy, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ben Bella, and North African Arab
Nationalism
* 7: Kennedy, Felix Houphouët-Boigny, William Tubman, and Conservative
African Nationalism
* Part Two
* 8: The Kennedy-de Gaulle Rivalry in Africa
* 9: The View from Pretoria
* 10: Cold War Civil Rights and Kennedy's Courting of African
Nationalists
* 11: Contested Skies: US-USSR Competition for African Civil Aviation
Markets and the Cuban Missile Crisis
* Conclusion: The Kennedy Legacy in Africa
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index