Ethiopia: Power & Protest : Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century [Paperback]

Gebru Tareke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1996

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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Book Description

This study of popular protest and resistance in Ethiopia focuses on three important peasant-based rebellions that occurred between 1941 and 1970. Gebru Tareke argues that these rebellions were connect to the rise of a modern, bureaucratic, multi-ethnic national state instead of being a consequence of capitalist exploitation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Red Sea Pr; First Red Sea Press Edition. edition (March 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569020191
• ISBN-13: 978-1569020197
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,702,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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