New York: Grove Press, 2010. — 457 p. In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Liberia to show the world what was happening in that war-torn country. To protect him, he hired Nick du Toit, a former South African Defence Force soldier who had fought in conflicts across Africa for over three decades. What follows is an...
London: C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1999. — 350 p. Liberia has been one of Africa’s most violent trouble spots. During the 1990s thousands of teenage fighters laid siege to the capital and the world took notice. Since then Liberia has been through devastating civil upheaval. What began as a civil conflict has spread to other West African nations as well. Stephen Ellis traces...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 239 p. Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America.
Page Publishing, 2021. — 230 p. This is a path breaking analysis of the Presidency of William V.S. Tubman of Liberia 1944-1971, and his attempt to end the subjugation of the African majority in Liberia by the American Liberian minority. During his presidency he put forth a great deal of effort to get Liberia involved in becoming a participant in the world community of nations.
Gotham Books, 2004. — 337 p. The gripping story of two hundred freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony—where the colonists’ repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence. When a wealthy Mississippi cotton planter named Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 295 p. Rebel groups exhibit significant variation in their treatment of civilians, with profound humanitarian consequences. This book proposes a new theory of rebel behavior and cohesion based on the internal dynamics of rebel groups. Rebel groups are more likely to protect civilians and remain unified when rebel leaders can offer cash...
The New Press, 2021. — 288 p. An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow. In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck...
University of North Carolina Press, 2007. — 248 p. The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African...
М.: Восточная литература, 1999. — 302 с.: карты. — (История стран Африки). — ISBN: 5-02-018116-1. Книга, выходящая в серии «История стран Африки», посвящена истории сравнительно небольшой страны Западной Африки — Либерии. Это государство было основано в первой половине XIX в. освобожденными рабами, реэмигрантами из США. Либерия была первой республикой в Тропической Африке,...
М.: Восточная литература, 1999. — 302 с.: карты. — (История стран Африки). — ISBN: 5-02-018116-1. Книга, выходящая в серии «История стран Африки», посвящена истории сравнительно небольшой страны Западной Африки — Либерии. Это государство было основано в первой половине XIX в. освобожденными рабами, реэмигрантами из США. Либерия была первой республикой в Тропической Африке,...
Комментарии