Leigh A. Gardner (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Sovereignty without Power

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Produktbeschreibung

Sovereignty without Power provides the first quantitative and comparative economic history of Liberia and contributes to debates in economic and political history. Liberia's economic history over two centuries shows the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty for independent states around the world during the age of empires.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781009181105
• ISBN-10: 1009181106
• Artikelnr.: 63433809

Autorenporträt

Leigh A Gardner is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism (2012) and co-author (with Tirthankar Roy) of Economic History of Colonialism (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
1. Reconstructing the fragments: Liberia's economic history, 1847-1980
Part I. Foundations: 2. Before the dragons came
3. Black Americans in West Africa
Part II. The Art of Survival: 4. Trade, globalization and sovereignty
5. From paper to gold
6. The costs of foreign capital
7. Financial controls and forced labor
Part III. Sovereignty for Sale?: 8. An African marshall plan
9. Concessions and growth
10. Selling the flag
11. Sovereignty beyond the age of empires
Appendix 1: Data on Liberia's economic history
Appendix 2: Constructing Liberian GDP statistics
References
Index.