ISBN:
0-521-40011-2
,
978-0-521-40011-4
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 272 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 71
Keywords:
Äthiopien Eritrea
;
Tigray
;
Oromo
;
Amhara
;
Geschichte
;
Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt
;
Landbevölkerung
;
Landarbeiter
;
Landrecht
;
Revolte
;
Politische Bewegung
;
Konflikt, ethnischer
;
Haile Selassie I., Äthiopien, Kaiser
Abstract:
This study of popular protest and resistance in Ethiopia focuses on three important peasant-based rebellions that occurred between 1941 and 1970. The author attempts to uncover certain key features of popular protest in pre-revolutionary Ethiopia. Drawing upon ample evidence, he concludes that these revolts were not a consequence of capitalist exploitation, as was usually the case in most Third World countries, but were connected with the rise of a modern, bureaucratic, multi-ethnic national state. Ethiopian peasants were neither conservative nor compliant, as is often assumed, although their defiance was nevertheless essentially non-revolutionary. These interesting and fresh findings also suggest a possible explanation for the eruption and intensification of armed conflict in rural Ethiopia after 1974. On a theoretical level, the study makes a significant contribution to the ongoing analysis of social movements in agrarian societies. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Explanatory notes -- 1. Introduction: an historical/theoretical overview -- Part I. Society and History -- 2. The historical context -- 3. The social context -- Part II. Resistance and Repression -- 4. Tigrai: provincialism versus centralism -- 5. Bale: the nationalities armed -- 6. Gojjam: a vendée revolt? -- 7. Conclusions -- Epilogue: from rebellion to revolution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 252-260
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