Marxist Modern

Examines the events of 1974 from Maale as well as from Addis to give a view from the margins of the state. Modernity has become a keyword in a number of intellectual debates: in marginal areas of the world as much as its centres of power and wealth. Investigating Ethiopia during the 1974 revolution, Donald Donham constructs a narrativeof upheaval and change, presenting locals' views on the events. North America: University of California Press