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Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction. Sierra Leone: African Colony, African Diaspora -- Liberated African Origins and the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade -- Their Own Middle Passage: Voyages to Sierra Leone -- "Particulars of Disposal:" Life and Labor after "Liberation" -- Liberated African Nations: Ethnogenesis in an African Diaspora -- Kings and Companies: Ethnicity and Community Leadership -- Religion, Return, and the Making of the Aku -- The Cobolo War: Islam, Identity, and Resistance -- Conclusion. Retention or Renaissance? Krio Descendants and Ethnic Identity.

Many people take the trouble to vote even though each voter's prospect of deciding the election is nearly nil. Russians vote even when pervasive electoral fraud virtually eliminates even that slim chance. Could people vote or protest because they stop considering their own chances and start to think about an identity shared with others? With this in mind, Discourse, Dictators and Democrats presents a ground-breaking theory of what language use does to politics.

In late spring, 1941, a small group of U.S. Army officers traveled to Britain to plan for Anglo-American cooperation if and when the U.S. entered World War II. Because the United States was still a neutral country and to prevent potential enemies from knowing the group's purpose, the U.S. Army called its mission to Britain the "U.S. Army Special Observer Group" (SPOBS). From May, 1941 until June, 1942, SPOBS (known as U.S. Army Forces in the British Isles or USAFBI after January 8, 1942) developed plans with the British for establishing U.S forces in the British Isles. Changing strategic conditions however, made much of this work obsolete. As a result, the Allies had to develop new plans for establishing U.S. combat power in Britain. The fact that the Allies never implemented SPOBS' plans in their entirety has led scholars to underestimate the significance of the group's work with the British. This study asserts that the process of planning that the Special Observers engaged in with their British counterparts played an essential role in setting the conditions for Anglo-American cooperation in the European Theater.