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  • Frobenius-Institut  (3)
  • 1995-1999  (3)
  • 1950-1954
  • Lawrenceville, NJ : The Red Sea Press  (3)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 1-56902-120-1 , 1-56902-121-X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 270 Seiten
    Edition: First printing
    Keywords: Äthiopien Oromo ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte ; Demokratisierung ; Befreiungsbewegung ; Dekolonisation ; Integration
    Abstract: This work traces the evolution of the modern Ethiopian State and its consolidation under the last three successive regimes. Leenco Lata critically assesses the Transitional Period of the post-Dergue era between the July 1991 Conference, which ratified the Transitional Charter and the formation of the Transition Government of Ethiopia, and August 21, 1995, when the new Federal Constitution of Ethiopia was ratified. The author argues that the overthrow of the Dergue regime and the adoption of a democratic agenda in July 1991 was an important historical juncture that afforded Ethiopia the opportunity to make a clean break with her imperial and autocratic past. As the deputy Secretary General of the Oromo Liberation Front, one of the major organizations to participate in the July 1991 Conference, Leenco Lata was deeply involved in the task of drawing up Ethiopia's post-Dergue political structure and the arduous task of conceptualizing the undertaking to democratize Ethiopia and make it a viable operational state. This book is a detailed firsthand account of how "this latest opportunity to decolonize and democratize the Ethiopian State ended in a disappointing failure." Furthermore, the factors that favored or stood in the way of effecting a genuine transition to democracy are also catalogued and discussed. In particular, the US-led international community's influence, the key factor that could have kept the democratization process on track, is analyzed. In the final section, the author presents his recipe for change: The Ethiopian state must be further decentralized, decolonized and democratized if it is to escape the harrowing consequences of disintegration.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I The Many Faces of Ethiopia's Transition to Democracy; Part II The Nature of the Liberation Fronts: A Major Obstacle to the Democratization Pact; Part III Putting the Transition in an Historical Perspective; Part IV Whither Ethiopia?; Appendix Transitional Period Charter of Ethiopia, Bibliography, Index
    Note: LIteraturverzeichnis: Seite 263-266
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  • 2
    ISBN: 0-932415-18-0 , 0-932415-19-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 489 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Äthiopien Tigray ; Geschichte ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, interreligiös ; Christentum ; Islam ; Gold ; Handelsroute ; Frau ; Konflikt, ethnischer
    Abstract: Historically, studies of Ethiopia, like those of other countries, tend to concentrate on events at or near the center of political power, and devote far too little attention to other areas. The present account attempts, at least in part, to redress the balance by shifting attention to the "peripheral" regions, which, while of central importance to their own inhabitants, tend to receive relatively little focus in studies of the Ethiopian region as a whole. This book is an historical investigative account of the history of the expanding and often nebulous borders of Ethiopia, beginning from ancient times to 1800. it deals with areas that have for years been contentious and problematic for the adjacent peoples in the region: Land of Bahr Nagash, Ifat, Adal, Fatagar, Dawaro, Bali, Damot, Gurage, Waj, gamo, ganz, Gafat, Kafa, etc. It contains numerous illustrations of antiquities, from old European maps to Ethiopian historical drawings.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Ancient Times (c.3500 BC - 523 AD); The Early Medieval Period (c.890 - 1454); The Era of Zar'a Yaq'ob and Lebna Dengel (1433-1540); The Era of Imam Ahmad (1526-1545); The Era of Galawdewos and Sarsa Dengel (1540-1606); The Oromo Migration and the Gondarine Monarchy (1522-1800); Historical Tables; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 451-467
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  • 3
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    ISBN: 1-56902-019-1 , 978-1-56902-019-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 272 Seiten , Karten
    Keywords: Äthiopien Eritrea ; Tigray ; Oromo ; Amhara ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Landbevölkerung ; Landarbeiter ; Landrecht ; Revolte ; Politische Bewegung ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Haile Selassie I., Äthiopien, Kaiser [Leben und Werk]
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Preface; List of maps; List of tables; Abbreviations; 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. Weyane: provincialism vs. centralism; 5. Bale: the nationalities armed; 6. Gojjam: a vendee revolt?; 7. Conclusions; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography.
    Note: Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991. Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 252-260
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