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TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 LIBERIAN SOCIETY AND THE PRESS 5 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 13 CHAPTER 2: COLONIAL PERIOD, 1822 TO 1846 33 LIBERIA IN 1843 36 A PRESS TO HERALD A NATION OR ILLUMINATE ALL AFRICA? 47 INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF THE PRESS 60 DENOMINATIONAL AFFILIATION AND POLITICS 75 GOVERNMENT-CHURCH CONTROVERSIES 81 CHAPTER 3: THE REPUBLICAN ERA, 1847 TO 1899 112 THE PRESS: RAISING NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS 117 RACE, REPUBLICANISM AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 127 GEOGRAPHIC LIMITS OF SOCIETY 137 CHURCHES, GOVERNMENT, AND THE PRESS 147 ELECTORAL POLITICS 164 ELECTORAL POLITICS AND JOURNALISM 167 THE 1871 COUP D'ETAT 170 COMPETING IDEAS OF STATUS 176 JOHNSON'S ATTEMPTED SYNTHESIS 183 CHAPTER 4: THE CREATION OF GREATER LIBERIA, 1900-1930 212 POLITICAL EMERGENCE OF WOMEN 268 CHURCH AFFILIATIONS AND POLITICAL ALLIANCES 272 FALL OF THE KING ADMINISTRATION 309 CHAPTER 5: THE DRIVE FOR MODERNIZATION, 1931 TO 1970 369 JOURNALISM DURING THE BARCLAY YEARS 383 ELECTORAL POLITICS 391 BARCLAY USES THE SEDITION LAW 399 TUBMAN FURTHER RESTRICTS RIGHTS 410 INSTITUTIONAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES 412 JOURNALISM IN THE TUBMAN YEARS 425 RESTRICTIONS ON THE PRESS 440 THE INDEPENDENT, THE LISTENER AND THE 1955 ELECTIONS 451 THEMES AND LEGACY OF THE PERIOD 462 CHAPTER 6: MODERNIZATION AND PRESS FREEDOM 497 PRESS FREEDOM AND STABILITY 500 PRESS FREEDOM AND MODERNIZATION 501 PRESS FREEDOM AND POWER RELATIONS 506 CORE VALUES AND RESTRICTIONS 520 POLICY AND RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS 523 BIBLIOGRAPHY 531
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Press -- Liberia -- History -- 20th century.
Press -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century.
Government and the press -- Liberia -- History -- 20th century.
Government and the press -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century.
Freedom of the press -- Liberia -- History -- 20th century.
Freedom of the press -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century.