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The Revolutionary Transformation of Ethiopia's Twentieth-Century Bureaucratic Empire

1981; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022278x00016955

1469-7777

Edmond J. Keller,

African history and culture analysis

Ethiopia has long been regarded as the only African state, along with Liberia, to have escaped the ravages of European colonialism, the epitome of African independence and self-determination. 1 It was also considered a stable, relatively integrated, and viable political community amidst a continent of new states characterised by chronic instability. 2 But by 1974, most if not all of these myths were in the process of being broken, as Ethiopia struggled for its very existence against pressures from within and without that threatened to dismember the Empire.