Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution [1 ed.] 0520213297, 9780520213296

Modernity has become a keyword in a number of recent intellectual discussions. In this book, Donald L. Donham shows that

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Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution [1 ed.]
0520213297, 9780520213296

This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over

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Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth

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