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Category : Liberia
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Liberia Today
Author: American Warlord
Author: Johnny DwyerPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307273482
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.
Mississippi in Africa
Author: Alan HuffmanPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604737549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
Author: Robtel Neajai PaileyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108836542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.
This Our Dark Country
Author: Catherine ReefPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618147854
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Explores the history of the colony, later the independent nation of Liberia, which was established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven for free African-Americans.
Liberia
Author: John-Peter PhamPublisher: Reed Press(NY)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"In this utterly depressing account of the west African nation's history and politics, scholar and diplomat Pham offers a cautionary tale regarding Western intervention in Africa. Colonized by free American blacks in the early 19th century, Liberia has long been beset by tensions, not only among its native populations but between natives and the descendants of its Western colonizers. But Pham is no knee-jerk blame-the-West critic- far from it. As he points out, Western investment, by Firestone and other rubber companies, "served as the principal catalyst for Liberia's infrastructure." The author does, however, acknowledge that the workers were paid little for the labor that enriched the rubber companies, and that tribal chiefs were given a cut for the toil of their villagers. Liberia's worst times have come in the past two decades, with rampant corruption and civil war. In Pham's eyes, nation-states have failed, in Liberia and elsewhere in Africa, for a variety of reasons: tribal and ethnic tensions and the end of the Cold War, which allowed weak states propped up by the superpowers to tumble. Pham argues that these states must take responsibility for their own reconstruction and reconstitution as democratic nations, without Western intervention, if they are ever to emerge from their current struggle"--from Publisher's Weekly, quoted on amazon.com.
Crisis in Liberia
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on AfricaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Liberia
Author: Liberia
Author: Robin S. DoakPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1484611047
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Liberia offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.
Liberia in Pictures
Author: Thomas StreissguthPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822524656
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Discusses the economy, geography, government, people, cultural life, and history of Liberia.