A Political Economic History of the Liberian State, Forced Labour and Armed Mobilization

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-376

  Munive, Jairo ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Civil wars; Combatants; Demobilization; Labour; Plantations

Indexed keywords

ARMED FORCES; CIVIL WAR; ECONOMIC HISTORY; LABOR PARTICIPATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL HISTORY; TERRITORIALITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 79959441687     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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