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Title: | The Political Economy of Rural Rebellion in Ethiopia: Northern Resistance to Imperial Expansion, 1928-1935 |
Author: | McCann, James C. |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 601-623 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | rebellions history 1920-1929 1930-1939 Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/218799 |
Abstract: | The 1928-1930 rebellion in northeast Ethiopia had consequences well beyond the bloodshed and economic dislocation in Ethiopia's northeast provinces. The imperial army's crushing of the rebellion led directly to Ras Tafari Makonnan's coronation as Emperor Haile Selassie, and the suppression of the north's resistance helped seal the fall of Ethiopia's northern provinces from political and economic influence in the modern state. Despite the importance of the series of events which took place in and around northeast Ethiopia in the late 1920s, no historian has carried out a serious study of the 'rebellion', nor did contemporary European or Ethiopian observers understand the full meaning of the events as they unfolded. This article examines connections between political events during the north's challenge to Shawan imperial hegemony, the nature of the imperial state itself, the organization of production and distribution at the grassroots level, and, especially, the nature of environmental and institutional changes in the rural household economy. With the aid of new data the author follows the course of events during the rebellion and relates these to basic questions about northern Ethiopian rural economy. Notes. |