Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia

This 1988 text traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a centralised Ethiopian state since the nineteenth century.

List of contents

List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Glossary of Amharic words; Map of administrative regions of Ethiopia; 1. Revolutions; 2. Monarchical modernisation and the origins of revolution; 3. The mobilisation phase, 1974-8; 4. The formation of the party, 1978-87; 5. The Ethiopian state: structures of extraction and control; 6. The control of the towns; 7. Rural transformation and the crisis of agricultural production; 8. The national question; 9. The external politics of revolution; 10. Conclusion; Postscript to the paperback edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This pioneering study was first published in 1988. It examines the effects of revolution on one of Africa's largest states. Christopher Clapham traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a centralised Ethiopian state since the nineteenth century, emphasising the institutionalisation of the revolutionary regime since 1978.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Clapham
• Assisted by: David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521396509
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39650-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: African Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education