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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Halaman 68
... town of the Wete , and Grand Cess , of the Siglio . These towns were engaged in persistent competition among themselves , forming shifting alliances as their political and economic interest required ( Fraenkel 1966 ; Davis 1968 ) ...
... town of the Wete , and Grand Cess , of the Siglio . These towns were engaged in persistent competition among themselves , forming shifting alliances as their political and economic interest required ( Fraenkel 1966 ; Davis 1968 ) ...
Halaman 69
... towns that , while independent , also cooperated ( and fought ) among themselves as well as with coastal towns . These interior towns tended to perceive the coastal towns as barriers in their efforts to trade directly with Europeans ...
... towns that , while independent , also cooperated ( and fought ) among themselves as well as with coastal towns . These interior towns tended to perceive the coastal towns as barriers in their efforts to trade directly with Europeans ...
Halaman 204
... towns . Strong links with the mother towns always remained , however , and manifested themselves in the control and use of farmland and the meeting of kinship and other obligations within the mother towns . In such breakaway towns ...
... towns . Strong links with the mother towns always remained , however , and manifested themselves in the control and use of farmland and the meeting of kinship and other obligations within the mother towns . In such breakaway towns ...
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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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