Liberia: The Violence of Democracy
(Part of the The Ethnography of Political Violence Series)
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Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by an American philanthropic organization as a refuge for "Free People of Color" from the United States. Many analysts have attributed the violent upheaval...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812220285
ISBN13:9780812220285
Release Date:July 2008
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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