Whitehall and the Black Republic A Study of Colonial Britain's Attitude Towards Liberia, 1914-1939 /

• Main Author: Pal Chaudhuri, Jyotirmoy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Diplomacy.; African History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.

This book examines the history of the relationship between Liberia and Britain-the world's first black republic, founded by former slaves, and the world's strongest colonial power. Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri excavates a wealth of archival sources to reconstruct a turbulent narrative spanning...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Outline of the Past
• 2. The British Foreign Office and Liberian Neutrality during World War I
• 3. The Sequel to the Declaration of War
• 4. The British Reaction to the Firestone Investment in Liberia
• 5. The Fernando Po Labour Crisis of 1929-1930
• 6. The League of Nations Plan of Assistance
• 7. The British and the Unrest on the Kru Coast
• 8. An Improving Image Abroad 1934-1939.