Jalloh / Falola The United States and West Africa

Interactions and Relations
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-58046-751-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 34, 490 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jalloh, Alusine

Falola, Toyin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bangura, Abdul Karim

Oyebade, Adebayo

Jalloh, Alusine

Warnock, Amanda

Ewoh, Andrew I. E.

Spring, Anita

Olukoju, Ayodeji

Lawal, Bayo

Ruane, Christopher

Johnson III, Fred L.

Tijani, Hakeem I.

Harris, Harold R.

Kargbo, Ibrahim

Sundiata PhD, Ibrahim

Grant PhD, John Wess

Bell, Karen B.

Vincent, Ken

Essien, Kwame

Ismail, Olawale

Gbla, Osman

Dumbuya, Peter A.

Harmon, Stephen A.

Kandeh, Stephen

Falola, Toyin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Amanda Warnock and Toyin Falola and Alusine Jalloh
West Africa and the United States in Historical Perspective - Adebayo Oyebade and Toyin Falola
The U.S. Consulate and the Promotion of Trade in Sierra Leone, 1850-80 - Ibrahim Kargbo
Stranded Families: Free Colored Responses to Liberian Colonization and the Formation of Black Families in Nineteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia - John Wess Grant PhD
The Garvey Aftermath: The Fall, Rise, and Fall - Ibrahim Sundiata PhD
Economic Relations between Nigeria and the United States in the Era of British Colonial Rule, ca. 1900-1950 - Ayodeji Olukoju
The United States' Economic and Political Activities in Colonial West Africa - Hakeem I. Tijani
Developing a "Sense of Community": U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Place of Africa during the Early Cold War Period, 1953-64 - Karen B. Bell
African Americans in Ghana and Their Contributions to "Nation Building" since 1985 - Kwame Essien
Perspectives on Ghanaians and African Americans - Harold R. Harris
The Chasm Is Wide: Unspoken Antagonisms between African Americans and West Africans - Fred L. Johnson III
Double Consciousness and the Home-Coming of African Americans: Building Cultural Bridges in West Africa - Bayo Lawal
Sierra Leoneans in America and Homeland Politics - Alusine Jalloh
The United States and West Africa: The Institutionalization of Foreign Relations in an Age of Ideological Ferment - Peter A. Dumbuya
U.S. Foreign Policy toward West Africa: Democracy, Economic Development, Security - Andrew I. E. Ewoh
U.S. Economic Assistance to West Africa - Abdul Karim Bangura
The West African Enterprise Network: Business Globalists, Interregional Trade, and U.S. Interventions - Anita Spring
Poverty Alleviation in Sierra Leone and the Role of U.S. Foreign Aid: An Institutional Trap Analysis - Stephen Kandeh
Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy toward Liberia and Sierra Leone - Osman Gbla
The United States and Security Management in West Africa: A Case for Cooperative Intervention - Olawale Ismail
Radical Islam in the Sahel: Implications for U.S. Policy and Regional Stability - Stephen A. Harmon
Undoing Oil's Curse? An Examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project - Ken Vincent
U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda, 2005-9: Why West Africa Barely Features - Christopher Ruane

Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.