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Title: | The German Factor in Liberia's Foreign Relations |
Author: | Schmokel, Wolfe W. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Liberian Studies Journal |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 27-42 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Liberia Germany |
Subjects: | foreign policy international relations Politics and Government |
Abstract: | Historians have tended to depict Liberia's relation to the USA as the predominant theme of Liberia's foreign relations, if not of all Liberian history. This view neglect the fact that over more than half the Republic's history commercial, and to a lesser extent, political contacts with European powers have been far more intensive than trans-Atlantic ones. The very considerable role played in Liberian affairs by Germany has been generally overlooked. This neglect distorts perspectives on Liberia's unique accomplishment in maintaining her sovereignty throughout the period of imperialist domination of Africa, and on the economic history of the Republic. This is a particularly serious oversight for the years from ca. 1895-1914, for which Liberian, but also British and American sources are quite fragmentary. The German documentation, on which this brief account is largely based, provides a more complete picture of development in Liberia for this period than any other single body of materials. Notes. |