Description: The first comprehensive scholarly reassessment of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution and its broader significance, published in commemoration of fifty years since the revolution, itself
Brief description: Etana H. Dinka is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in African history. His research focuses on the late nineteenth and twentieth-century political and environmental history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region.
Review Quotes:
"Social revolutions-those great upheavals that transform not only who controls the state but also what class dominates the economy-produce especially long-lasting reverberations. This important collection examines the ways in which the 1974 Ethiopian revolution continues into the present. Required reading for specialists and the general public." --Donald L. Donham, distinguished research professor, University of California, Davis, USA
"More than a half-century after the Ethiopian Revolution, scholars continue to debate its nature and lasting impact. In Legacies, Etana Dinka has assembled a rich and provocative interdisciplinary collection. With diverse contributions addressing local, regional, national, and international and diasporic iterations of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, land tenure, religion, and political violence, this important book re-instantiates why Abyssinia and Ethiopia occupy a venerable space in African studies scholarship." --Benjamin N. Lawrance, University of Arizona, USA