Liberian politics : the portrait by African American diplomat J. Milton Turner / edited by Hanes Walton, Jr., James Bernard Rosser, Sr., and Robert L. Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walton, Hanes, Jr., 1941-2013.

Rosser, James Bernard, 1946-

Stevenson, Robert L., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, James Milton.

African American diplomats--Biography.

African American diplomats.

Diplomats--United States--Biography.

Diplomats.

International relations.

United States.

Liberia.

United States--Foreign relations--Liberia.

Liberia--Foreign relations--United States.

Liberia--Politics and government--To 1944.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xlii, 417 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]

Summary:

Liberian Politics tells the fascinating story of Liberia's early nation-building efforts, its attempts to establish democracy, and the pivotal role played by African Americans in exporting the American democratic experiment to Liberia. The story of the rise of Africa's oldest democracy is told through the writings of J. Milton Turner, an African American diplomat who served in Liberia from 1871 to 1878. Turner's official diplomatic correspondence--superbly organized and edited by Walton, Rosser, and Stevenson--document Liberia's struggle to define its political institutions and processes. They chart Liberia's struggle to establish its relationship with the wider world and offer an intimate portrait of Turner's role as the agent of U.S. foreign policy in Liberia. A comparative study in the best tradition of Tocqueville and Myrdal, this pathbreaking work reveals the global dimensions of nineteenth-century African American politics and offers rich insight into the direction of early U.S. diplomacy in Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-407) and index.

ISBN:

073910344X

OCLC:

48223073