Political Change in a West African State : A Study of the Modernization Process in Sierra Leone

Kilson, Martin

Published by Harvard University Press, 1966

About this Item

Dr. Kilson rose through the ranks to become the first African American scholar to achieve a Full Professorship in Harvard College, where he taught for forty-two years before retiring in 1999. Kilson addresses issues of class and power, and the socio-economic foundations and intellectual requisites of effective political leadership, whether in emerging nations of Africa or the rising middle class throughout the history of African Americans. Book is in excellent condition with just a tiny chip at the top corner of the spine. An association copy with inscription by the author on ffep to Dr. Alfred Hershey who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbrück and Salvador Edward Luria, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. They showed that bacterial resistance to viruses (phages) is genetically inherited. Genetic research was of great interest to professor Kilson who challenged assumptions of black inferiority on weak sientific evidence. Size: 6½" x 9½". Seller Inventory # 272634

Bibliographic Details

Title: Political Change in a West African State : A...

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

Book Type: book