Ethiopia: Anatomy of a traditional polity (Oxford studies in African affairs)

Markakis, John

Oxford University Press

Ethiopia: Anatomy of a Traditional Polity (Oxford Studies in African Affairs)

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The origins of a violent & many-sided conflict involving Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, & Djibouti for three decades, are traced back to the colonial period & disparity created by the state.

National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa (African Studies, Series Number 55)

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

History

Waller, Michael

Military

Routledge

Class and revolution in Ethiopia

Africa

Spokesman Books [for the Review of African political economy]

National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa

Zed Books

Class and Revolution in Ethiopia

Ayela, Nega

Red Sea Pr

A historically rooted analytical writing on the Ethiopian Revolution.

Ayele, Nega

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers (Eastern Africa Series, 10)

Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfolds and the changes of direction it takes under different regimes, as well as a standard for assessing its progress and shortcomings at each stage. Over a century old, the process is still far from completion and its ultimate success is far from certain. In the author's view, there are two major obstacles that need to be overcome, two frontiers that need to be crossed to reach the desired goal. The first is the monopoly of power inherited from the empire builders and zealously guarded ever since by a ruling class of Abyssinian origin. The descendants of the people subjugated by the empire builders remain excluded from power, a handicap that breeds political instability and violent conflict. The second frontier is the arid lowlands on the margins of the state, where the process of integration has not yet reached, and where resistance to it is greatest. Until this frontier is crossed, the Ethiopian state will not have the secure borders that a mature nation state requires. John Markakis is a political historian who has devoted a professional lifetime to the study of Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. He has published several books and many articles on this area.BR&gt;

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

James Currey

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