The Emergence of Autocracy in Liberia: Tragedy and ChallengeInstitute for Contemporary Studies, 1992 - 418 halaman The book illuminates the political process that over the course of six generations brought about the personalization of authority in Liberia; and it links that system of personal rule to the highly centralized structures of the postcolonial state. The book concludes by exploring the future of self-govenance in Liberia and all of postcolonial Africa. The author became president of the Republic of Liberia after the civil war 1989-90. |
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... America . The American Revolution provided an occasion to focus upon this issue . The ideals of freedom and democracy and the struggle against British control significantly affected attitudes toward the continued practice of slavery ...
... America . The American Revolution provided an occasion to focus upon this issue . The ideals of freedom and democracy and the struggle against British control significantly affected attitudes toward the continued practice of slavery ...
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... American Revolution and the Civil War . In New England , Calvinist missionary zeal was the main force . In Pennsylvania , Quakers ' concern with the avoidance of racial war in the United States was mixed with the desire to create ...
... American Revolution and the Civil War . In New England , Calvinist missionary zeal was the main force . In Pennsylvania , Quakers ' concern with the avoidance of racial war in the United States was mixed with the desire to create ...
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... American society . He now envisaged the establishment of two colonies of free blacks , one on the North American continent , perhaps west of the Mississippi , and the other in Africa to be linked by trade , Christianity , and productive ...
... American society . He now envisaged the establishment of two colonies of free blacks , one on the North American continent , perhaps west of the Mississippi , and the other in Africa to be linked by trade , Christianity , and productive ...
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Social Order and Constitutional Choice | 1 |
The Idea of Liberia | 13 |
Indigenous West African Social Orders | 43 |
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