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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... tion and defined their common ground : the belief that the presence of free blacks threatened the fabric of American society . As it became the major preoccupation of the national debate about free blacks , coloniza- tion became more an ...
... tion and defined their common ground : the belief that the presence of free blacks threatened the fabric of American society . As it became the major preoccupation of the national debate about free blacks , coloniza- tion became more an ...
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... tion , the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color in the United States , as the ACS was to be known formally , was organized to play a supplementary or supportive role in colonizing free blacks . With the United States ...
... tion , the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color in the United States , as the ACS was to be known formally , was organized to play a supplementary or supportive role in colonizing free blacks . With the United States ...
Halaman 235
... tion of the existence outside Liberia of a higher political authority to which grievances could be directed and from which redress could be sought . The authority of the Liberian government was grossly diminished by the international ...
... tion of the existence outside Liberia of a higher political authority to which grievances could be directed and from which redress could be sought . The authority of the Liberian government was grossly diminished by the international ...
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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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