Preface -- U.S. trade and investment relationship with sub-Saharan Africa: the African Growth and Opportunity Act / Vivian C. Jones -- Africa command: U.S. strategic interests and the role of the U.S. military in Africa / Lauren Ploch -- South Africa: current issues and U.S. relations / Lauren...

Between 2000 and 2016, China and the UK acquired large areas of land through investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. Illustrated by numerous rich and nuanced empirical accounts of such projects, Ariane Goetz explains the global phenomenon of 'land grabbing' from the perspective of two...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Research design -- Chapter 2: Historical context -- Chapter 3: Capital and colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6: The rate of return on investment in Africa -- Chapter 7:...