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Gebru Tareke
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Ethiopia: Power & Protest : Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century |
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English |
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Paperback |
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296 |
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1996-03 |
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1569020191 |
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Red Sea Press |
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1.01 pounds |
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5.98 x 8.82 x 0.94 inches |
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New Ed |
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Book Description
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.
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