Output details
30 - History
King's College London
Book title
Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN of book
113702867X
Year of publication
2012
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This 232-page book required extensive use of archives in four countries – the UK, the US, Sierra Leone and Liberia – with the Sierra Leone and Liberia archives presenting a particular challenge in terms of access. The research in these archives took place not long after the ending of each country’s civil war, and thus the archives were in a state of disorder. In Liberia, it took three weeks to even find out which government building was now housing the remaining archives from the nineteenth century. In Sierra Leone, materials were haphazardly packed in boxes.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
