Liberian History Bibliography

Liberian History 101 Bibliography

2. Ellis, Stephen. 1999. Mask of Anarchy: the Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War, New York: New York University Press.

3. Guannu, Joseph Saye. 1989. The Perennial Problems of Liberian History, Sanniquellie, Liberia: Liberian Observer Corporation.

4. West, Richard. 1970. Back to Africa: a History of Sierra Leone and Liberia, London: Jonathan Cape.

5. Levitt, Jeremy I. 2005. The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia: from 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

6. Konneh, Augustine. 1996. Religion, Commerce, and the Integration of the Mandingo in Liberia, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

7. Beyan, Amos J. 2005. African American Settlements in West Africa; John Brown Russwurm and the American Civilizing Efforts, New York: Palgrave.

8. Martinelli, Lawrence A. 1963. The New Liberia; A Historical and Political
Survey, New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers.

9. Akpan, Monday B. 1988. African Resistance in Liberia; The Vai and the Gola-Bandi, Bremen, Germany: Liberia Working Group.

10. Wiley, Bell I. (ed.) 1980. Slaves No More; Letters from Liberia 1833-1869, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

11. Tyler-McGraw, Marie. 2007. An African Republic; Black & White Virginians in the Making of Liberia, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.

12. Liberty, Clarence E. Zamba. 2002. Growth of the Liberian State; an Analysis of its Historiography, Northridge, CA: The New World African Press.

13. Sundiata, Ibrahim. 1980. Black Scandal; America and the Liberian Labor crisis, 1929-1936, Philadelphia, PA: Institute for the Study of Human Issues.

14. Saha, Santosh C. 1990. A History of Agriculture in Liberia 1822-1970; Transference of American Values, Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press.

15. Nesbit, William. 2000. Four Months in Liberia. (stolen)

16. Wilson, Charles Morrow. 1971. Liberia; Black Africa in Microcosm, New York: Harper and Row.

17. Moses, Wilson J. (ed.) 1998. Liberian Dreams; Back-to-Africa Narratives from the 1850s, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press.

18. Burin, Eric. 2005. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution; A History of the
American Colonization Society, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

19. Anderson, R. Earle. 1952. Liberia; America's African Friend, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.

20. Johnson, Charles S. 1987. Bitter Canaan: the Story of the Negro Republic, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.

21. Dunn, D. Elwood, and Svend E. Holsoe. 1985. Historical Dictionary of Liberia, Newark, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

22. Sundiata, Ibrahim. 2003. Brothers and Strangers; Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

23. Tipoteh, Togba-Nah, 1981. Democracy; the Call of the Liberian People, Ostervala, Sweden: Tofters Tryckeri Ab.

24. Pham, John-Peter. 2004. Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State, New York: Reed Press.

25. Yancy, Ernest Jerome. 1959. The Republic of Liberia, London: G. Allen and Unwin, Ruskin House.

26. Guannu, Joseph Saye, 1985. A Short History of the First Liberian Republic, Pompano Beach, FL: Exposition Press of Florida.

27. Clower, Robert W. 1966. Growth Without Development: an Economic Survey of Liberia, Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press. 

28. Sawyer, Amos. 1992. The Emergence of Autocracy in Liberia: Tragedy and Challenge, San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies.

29. Gongloe, Tiawan S. 1998. Law and Media in Liberia, Legon, Ghana: Media Foundation for West Africa.

30. Schulze, Willi. 1973. A New Geography of Liberia, London: Longman Group.

31. Martin, Jane. 1975. The Search for Matilda Newport: a background paper presented on the symposium on the celebration of Matilda Newport Day in Liberia, held by the Institute of African Studies, University of Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia, August 7, 1975, Monrovia, Liberia: University of Liberia Press.

32. Nevin, Timothy. 2011. The Uncontrollable Force; a History of the Liberian Frontier Force, International Journal of African Historical Studies (upcoming).