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Название:Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War Автор: Thomas Borstelmann Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA Год: 1993 Формат: pdf Страниц: 314 Для сайта:mymirknig.ru Размер: 22 MB Язык: English
In 1948, civil rights for black Americans stood higher on the national political agenda than at any time since Reconstruction. President Harry Truman issued orders for fair employment and the integration of the armed forces, and he proceeded to campaign on a platform that included an unprecedented civil rights plank, pushed through the Democratic convention by Hubert Humphrey. But on the other side of the globe, his administration paid close attention to another election as well: the surprising triumph of the white-supremacist National Party in South Africa, reluctantly accepted by the Truman White House.
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Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War 
