Liberia: A Country Study

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Historical Settings

• African Background

  • The Founding of Liberia
  • American Colonization Society
  • The Early Colony
  • The Commonwealth of Liberia

  The Independent Republic

  • Black Settlers and Native Africans
  • The Growth of Partisan Politics
  • Problems with Britain
  • President Roye and the British Loan
  • Lost Markets and Economic Decline

  The True Whig Ascendancy

  • Lost Territories
  • Indirect Rule in the Hinterland
  • Liberia in Receivership
  • Firestone
  • Liberia and the League of Nations
  • The Barclay Administration

  The Tubman Era

  • National Unification
  • Open Door Policy
  • Political and Economic Developments in the 1950s and 1960s

  The Tolbert Presidency

  • Social and Economic Problems in the 1970s
  • Opposition Movments
  • Rice Riots
  • The Regime on the Defensive
  • The April 12 Coup

Chapter Two: The Society and its Enviroment
• Physical Setting
  • Terrain
  • Drainage
  • Climate
• Demography
  • Population Growth and Age and Sex Structure
  • Population Distribution and Urbanization
• Ethnicity and Language
  • Ethnic Categories: The Tribal Peoples
  • Nontribal Peoples: Americo- Liberians and Others
  • Language and Communication
• The Social Order
  • Americo-Liberians and and the Idigenes
  • Society and the Growth of the Modern Sector
  • Tribal Structures
• Religion
  • Religious Affiliation and Ethnicity
  • Religion, Status, and Power
  • The Christianity of Indigenous Africans
• Education
Chapter 3: The Economy
• • Economic Growth
  • External Debt
  • Economic Planning
• Agriculture
  • Land Resources
  • Land Tenure
  • Traditional Agriculture
  • The Rice Supply
  • Commerical Crops
  • Communal Farms
  • Livestock
  • Forestry
  • Fishing
• Mining
• Manufacturing
• Energy Sources
  • Wood Fuels
  • Electric
  • Power
  • Petroleum
• Transportation
  • Ports
  • Martime Shipping
  • Roads
  • Railroads
  • Civil Aviation
• Foreign Trade and Balance of Payment
Chapter 4: Goverment and Politics

• Constitutional Development
• Structure of Goverment
  • Executive Branch
  • Civil Service
  • Judicial System
  • Local Administration
• People's Redemption Council
  • Political Program
  • Transistional Politics, 1981-82
  • Toward Civilian Rule
• 1983-84-Parties
• Associations, and Factions
  • Political Organizations under the Second Republic
  • Interest Groups
• The Information Media
• Foreign Relations
  • Africa
  • Neighboring Countries
  • Western Europe
  • United States
  • Coummunist Countries
    
Chapter 5: National Security
• State of Internal Security
  • Government Security Policy
• External Security Concerns
• The Armed Forces
  • The Military and the Government
  • Manpower
  • Organization and Strength
  • Training
  • Morale and Conditions of Service
  
  
  

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