Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991

First published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh, the earliest known ancestor of the human race, to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a sincere and sensitive observer, who lived through the later historical events which he describes, and indeed played a notable role in several of them.

Autorentext

Teferra Haile-Selassie

Zusammenfassung
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Historical Perspective Chapter 2 The Price of Modernisation Chapter 3 From an Absolute Monarchy to a Military Dictatorship Chapter 4 Critical Stage of the Revolution Chapter 5 Major Political Developments of the Revolution Chapter 6 The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia