Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Informationen zum Autor BRONWEN EVERILL is Assistant Professor of Global History at Warwick University, UK. She completed her PhD at King's College London and held a research fellowship at Oxford University. Her teaching and research focus on the history of imperial humanitarianism in Africa. Klappentext Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history, applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America. Zusammenfassung Bronwen Everill offers a new perspective on African global history! applying a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia to understand their role in the anti-slavery colonization movements of Britain and America. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks An African Middle Class Americans in Africa PART II: INTERACTIONS The Abolitionist Propaganda War Slave Trade Interventionism Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence Arguments for Colonial Expansion Epilogue: 1861 and Beyond Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: B Everill, B. Everill, Bronwen Everill, Everill Bronwen
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9781137028679
• ISBN: 978-1-137-02867-9
• Pages: 248
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Thèmes: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Co; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Co; Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée; B, European History, Social History, Social & cultural history, world history, Colonialism & imperialism, African History, imperialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Palgrave History Collection, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Africa—History