Liberia : : The Violence of Democracy / / Raymond Leslie Buell, Mary H. Moran.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ethnography of Political Violence
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Liberia, Violence, and Democracy
- Chapter 1. The Case for Indigenous Democracy
- Chapter 2. Contested Histories
- Chapter 3. Civilization and the Liberian Nation
- Chapter 4. The Promise and Terror of Elections
- Chapter 5. The Lock on the Outhouse Door: Discourses of Development
- Chapter 6. The Crisis of Youth and the Promise of the Future
- Chapter 7. Conclusion: A Wedding and a Funeral
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments