Ethiopia: A Country Study [Diskette]

Library of Congress (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

This is not a CD-ROM. It is an electronic book on PC diskette. This is an electronic version of the edition published in 1993, which replaced the one completedin 1980, "six years after a group of military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie I and eventually established a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. By 1990 this regime, led by Mengistu Haile Mariam, was on the verge of collapse, largely because of its inability to defeat two insurgencies in the northern part of the country."

This book is part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program: "a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists. The authors seek to provide a basic understanding of the observed society, striving for a dynamic rather than a static portrayal. Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.

Product Details

• Diskette
• Publisher: B & R Samizdat Express (January 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0915232170
• ISBN-13: 978-0915232178
• Product Dimensions: 4 x 3.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
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