The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959-1992

by John V. Clune

Blending African social history with US foreign relations, John V. Clune documents how ordinary people experienced a major aspect of Cold War diplomacy. The book describes how military-sponsored international travel, especially military training abroad and United Nations peacekeeping deployments in the Sinai and Lebanon, altered Ghanaian service members and their families during the three decades after independence in 1957. Military assistance to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826521517
• ISBN13: 9780826521514
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"