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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