num_pages: 256
description: Greater Ethiopia combines history anthropology and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite its political religious and linguistic diversity? Donald Levine's interdisciplinary study makes a substantial contribution both to Ethiopian interpretive history and to sociological analysis. In his new preface Levine examines Ethiopia since the overthrow of the monarchy in the 1970s.Ethiopian scholarship is in Professor Levine's debt. . . . He has performed an important task with panache urbanity and learning.Edward Ullendorff Times Literary SupplementUpon rereading this book it strikes the reader how broad in scope how innovative in approach and how stimulating in arguments this book was when it came out. . . . In the past twenty years it has inspired anthropological and historical research stimulated theoretical debate about Ethiopia's cultural and historical development and given the impetus to modern political thinking about the complexities and challenges of Ethiopia as a country. The text thus easily remains an absolute must for any Ethiopianist scholar to read and digest.-J. Abbink Journal of Modern African Studies
language: English
title: Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
publisher: University of Chicago Press