Peasants and Nationalism in Eritrea
Author: Jordan Gebre-Medhin
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780932415387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text shows how and why Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia by a UN mandate.
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Author: Jordan Gebre-Medhin
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780932415387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text shows how and why Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia by a UN mandate.
Author: Roy Pateman
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781569020579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work traces the Eritrean response to,Ethiopian occupation of their land and the origins,of the war. The book provides a survey of Eritrean,history, with a special inside look at the,military and other developments in the last two,decades. Completely updated and revised to provide,readers with an insight into developments in the,last five years.
Author: Kjetil Tronvoll
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781569020593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by the first anthropologist to enter Eritrea after the war, this study is an ethnographic account which explores the social organisation of a remote Tigrayan-speaking highland community and the livelihood of its peasants.
Author: Ruth Iyob
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521595919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades.
Author: Tekeste Negash
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1000676706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ethiopian-Eritrean federation, a product of a United Nations resolution, came into existence in 1952 and was abolished ten years later. The primary objective of this book is to examine the rise and the fall of the federation in the nght of present-day realities. This central theme is placed in context by a reconstruction of Eritrean political organizations during the crucial postwar years. The work includes a short account of the war between Eritrean nationalist forces and the Ethiopian government, which led up to the emergence of Eritrea as a sovereign state. Based primarily on archival sources at the Public Record Office in London, Eritrea and Ethiopia argues that no other group in the region has repeatedly succeeded in shaping its political destiny as the Tigreans of Eritrea have. Negash maintains that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia. The UN-imposed federation, together with its accompanying constitution, were doomed to fail, as these were foreign to Eritrean and Ethiopian conceptions of political power. The attempts of the Eritrean Moslem League to defend and maintain the federation were frustrated by internal contradictions, by the Unionist party, and by misconstrued perceptions of the division of powers between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The author looks closely at the impact of the British period on Eritrean society. Such an examination provides a better understanding of the background to the conflict and it is an important part of Eritrean political and social history. This book is the story of the slow but steady dissolution of the federation as seen and observed by the British diplomatic corps. Between 1952 and 1962, there were about thirty British nationals assigned to the Eritrean government. These expatriates kept in touch with the British consulate-general whose responsibility was to protect the interests of British nationals as well as to report developments to London. The conclusions and interpretations found in this book are, to a great extent, based on that documentation. Eritrea and Ethiopia is the first study of its kind to follow the rise and fall of the federation. It will be a challenging and insightful read for students of African affairs, diplomatic historians, policy studies scholars, and political theorists.
Author: Tekeste Negash
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-04
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521591980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost unnoticed, in the wake of the overthrow of Emperor Haile-Selassie, the coming to power of the military, and the ongoing independence struggle in Eritrea, a band of students launched an insurrection from the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray. Calling themselves the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), they built close relations with Tigray's poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989, and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.
Author: Tanja Müller
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9047407075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book captures the intriguing stories of different generations of women within the Eritrean nation building process. Theoretical analyses of political and social change are combined with extensive field research to provide a comprehensive picture of modernisation processes in Eritrea.
Author: David Pool
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmerging from a devastating 30-year war, the new Eritrean government's efforts to reconstruct its multi-ethnic society and transform its economy have been hailed as a model of nation-building. MRG's Report discusses the drawing up of a constitution which will aim to ensure a variety of rights. However, the question remains, how far will these rights be guaranteed in practice? For example, how far can Eritrea protect the rights of minorities and. At the same tine, promote the unity of the state? In seeking to answer these issues, the Report's author also examines how far the new government - whose members are overwhelmingly former freedom-fighters - can be said to be governing for all Eritrea's people? The Report pinpoints a series of important questions facing the government, from the environment and land rights, with the potential problems of scare land being given to returning refugees; on the extent to which women's liberation, a battle largely won by female freedom-fighters, will be upheld in peacetime; to the challenge of seeking to ensure that the parity of minority languages is recognized in education. (Adapted from Publisher's Abstract).
Author: Alemseged Abbay
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781569020722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this bold study of modern ethno-regional nationalism, the author examines the divergent paths taken by the nationalist insurgencies in Tigray and Eritrea. The author argues that Tigrayans, south of the Mereb River, and Kebessa (highlands) Eritreans, north of the Mereb, are ethnically one people, tied by common history, political economy, myth, language and religion. Both fought against a common enemy, an oppressive Amhara ethnic state, for a period of seventeen and thirty years, respectively. In the process of the armed struggle, however, each evolved separate political identities and, after jointly marching to military victory in 1991, they followed separate political paths - Eritreans created the newest state in Africa and Tigrayans remained within the Ethiopian body politic.