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African Studies Series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2023

Tom Lavers
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

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Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
Political Order and Distributive Crisis
, pp. 352 - 359
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023
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  2. 2 Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa, Polly Hill

  3. 3 Land Policy in Buganda, Henry W. West

  4. 4 The Nigerian Military: A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt, 1960–67, Robin Luckham

  5. 5 The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa, Margaret Peil

  6. 6 Labour in the South African Gold Mines, Francis Wilson

  7. 7 The Price of Liberty: Personality and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, Kenneth W. J. Post and George D. Jenkins

  8. 8 Subsistence to Commercial Farming in Present-Day Buganda: An Economic and Anthropological Survey, Audrey I. Richards, Fort Sturrock, and Jean M. Fortt (eds.)

  9. 9 Dependence and Opportunity: Political Change in Ahafo, John Dunn and A. F. Robertson

  10. 10 African Railwaymen: Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force, R. D. Grillo

  11. 11 Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa, Rene’ A. Bravmann

  12. 12 Modern and Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos, P. D. Cole

  13. 13 Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evaluation of a Political Order, Ivor Wilks

  14. 14 Culture, Tradition and Society in the West African Novel, Emmanuel Obiechina

  15. 15 Saints and Politicians, Donal B. Cruise O’Brien

  16. 16 The Lions of Dagbon: Political Change in Northern Ghana, Martin Staniland

  17. 17 Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue 1960–1965, Gary B. Wasserman

  18. 18 Muslim Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth-Century Africa, B. G. Martin

  19. 19 Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate: Historical and Sociological Perspectives, Joseph P. Smaldone

  20. 20 Liberia and Sierra Leone: An Essay in Comparative Politics, Christopher Clapham

  21. 21 Adam Kok’s Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa, Robert Ross

  22. 22 Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana: The Railwaymen of Sekondi, Richard Jeffries

  23. 23 West African States: Failure and Promise, John Dunn (ed)

  24. 24 Afrikaaners of the Kalahari: White Minority in a Black State, Margo Russell and Martin Russell

  25. 25 A Modern History of Tanganyika, John Iliffe

  26. 26 A History of African Christianity 1950–1975, Adrian Hastings

  27. 27 Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola, 1840–1926, W. G. Clarence-Smith

  28. 28 The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraised in African History: The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia, GywnPrins

  29. 29 Families Divided: The Impact of Migrant Labour in Lesotho, Colin Murray

  30. 30 Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640–1960, Patrick Manning

  31. 31 Kings, Commoners and Concessionaries: The Evolution of Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State, Philip Bonner

  32. 32 Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism: The Case of Sayid Mahammad ‘Abdille Hasan, Said S. Samatar

  33. 33 The Political Economy of Pondoland 1860–1930, William Beinart

  34. 34 Volkskapitalisme: Class, Capitals and Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1934–1948, Dan O’Meara

  35. 35 The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Rhodesia 1900–1963, Paul Mosely

  36. 36 Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 1st edition, Paul Lovejoy

  37. 37 Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People’s War, Patrick Chabal

  38. 38 Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa, Robert H. Bates

  39. 39 Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s, J. D. Y. Peel

  40. 40 Black People and the South African War, 1899–1902, Peter Warwick

  41. 41 A History of Niger 1850–1960, Finn Fuglestad

  42. 42 Industrialisation and Trade Union Organization in South Africa, 1924–1955, Stephen Ellis

  43. 43 The Rising of the Red Shawls: A Revolt in Madagascar 1895–1899, Stephen Ellis

  44. 44 Slavery in Dutch South Africa, Nigel Worden

  45. 45 Law, Custom and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia, Martin Chanock

  46. 46 Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan, Paul E. Lovejoy

  47. 47 Marrying Well: Marriage, Status and Social Change among the Educated Elite in Colonial Lagos, Kristin Mann

  48. 48 Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880–1938, Johannes Fabian

  49. 49 The Shell Money of the Slave Trade, Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson

  50. 50 Political Domination in Africa, Patrick Chabal

  51. 51 The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology, Donald Donham and Wendy James

  52. 52 Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class, Paul M. Lubeck

  53. 53 Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800–1900, Randall L. Pouwels

  54. 54 Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871–1890, Robert Vicat Turrell

  55. 55 National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa, John Markakis

  56. 56 Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria: The Rise and Fall of the Second Republic, Richard A. Joseph

  57. 57 Entrepreneurs and Parasites: The Struggle for Indigenous Capitalism in Zaire, Janet MacGaffey

  58. 58 The African Poor: A History, John Iliffe

  59. 59 Palm Oil and Protest: An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800–1980, Susan M. Martin

  60. 60 France and Islam in West Africa, 1860–1960, Christopher Harrison

  61. 61 Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, Christopher Clapham

  62. 62 Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821–1885, Anders Bjorkelo

  63. 63 Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana, Ivor Wilks

  64. 64 H.C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919–1958, Akintola Wyse

  65. 65 Contemporary West African States, Donal Cruise O’Brien, John Dunn, and Richard Rathbone (eds.)

  66. 66 The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570–1860, Mohammed Hassen

  67. 67 Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades, Patrick Manning

  68. 68 Abraham Esau’s War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899–1902, Bill Nasson

  69. 69 The Politics of Harmony: Land Dispute Strategies in Swaziland, Laurel L. Rose

  70. 70 Zimbabwe’s Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices, Norma J. Kriger

  71. 71 Ethiopia: Power and Protest: Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth-Century, Gebru Tareke

  72. 72 White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865, Clifton C. Crais

  73. 73 The Elusive Granary: Herder, Farmer, and State in Northern Kenya, Peter D. Little

  74. 74 The Kanyok of Zaire: An Institutional and Ideological History to 1895, John C. Yoder

  75. 75 Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu, Michael A. Gomez

  76. 76 Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936, Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn

  77. 77 West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700–1860, James F. Searing

  78. 78 A South African Kingdom: The Pursuit of Security in the Nineteenth-Century Lesotho, Elizabeth A. Elredge

  79. 79 State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante, T. C. McCaskie

  80. 80 Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick, Leonardo A. Villalon

  81. 81 Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice, Vivian Bickford-Smith

  82. 82 The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance and Nationalism, 1941–1993, Ruth Iyob

  83. 83 Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone, William Reno

  84. 84 The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya, Angelique Haugerud

  85. 85 Africans: The History of a Continent, 1st edition, John Iliffe

  86. 86 From Slave Trade to ‘Legitimate’ Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa, Robin Law (ed)

  87. 87 Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville, Phyllis Martin

  88. 88 Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty, Christopher Wrigley

  89. 89 Decolonialization and African Life: The Labour Question in French and British Africa, Frederick Cooper

  90. 90 Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in an African Forest-Savannah Mosaic, James Fairhead, and Melissa Leach

  91. 91 Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 1975–1991, John Young

  92. 92 Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, Boubacar Barry

  93. 93 Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century, Martin Lynn

  94. 94 Slavery and French Colonial Rule in West Africa: Senegal, Guinea and Mali, Martin A. Klein

  95. 95 East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession, John Iliffe

  96. 96 Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, c.1600–1960, Ralph Derrick, Ralph A. Austen, and Jonathan Derrick

  97. 97 Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760–1803, Susan Newton-King

  98. 98 Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870: A Tragedy of Manners, Robert Ross

  99. 99 Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius, Richard B. Allen

  100. 100 Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 2nd edition, Paul E. Lovejoy

  101. 101 The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, 1880–1995, Thomas J. Bassett

  102. 102 Re-imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century, Johan Pottier

  103. 103 The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa, Clifton Crais

  104. 104 Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000, M. Anne Pitcher

  105. 105 Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980–1987, Norma J. Kriger

  106. 106 An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire, Gwyn Campbell

  107. 107 Honour in African History, John Iliffe

  108. 108 Africans: A History of a Continent, 2nd edition, John Iliffe

  109. 109 Guns, Race, and Power in Colonial South Africa, William Kelleher Storey

  110. 110 Islam and Social Change in French West Africa: History of an Emancipatory Community, Sean Hanretta

  111. 111 Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War and Decolonization, Daniel Branch

  112. 112 Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda, Timothy Longman

  113. 113 From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an African Slave Trade, 1600–1830, Walter Hawthorne

  114. 114 Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present, Myron Echenberg

  115. 115 A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960, Bruce S. Hall

  116. 116 Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900–1955, Katherine Luongo

  117. 117 Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa, 3rd edition, Paul E. Lovejoy

  118. 118 The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589, Toby Green

  119. 119 Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher

  120. 120 Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century, Judith Scheele

  121. 121 Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World: Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade, Roquinaldo Ferreira

  122. 122 Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival, Derek Peterson

  123. 123 Black Morocco: A History of Slavery and Islam, Chouki El Hamel

  124. 124 An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and Its Hinterland, Mariana Candido

  125. 125 Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia, Lahra Smith

  126. 126 Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability, Elisabeth McMahon

  127. 127 A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900, Rhiannon Stephens

  128. 128 The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856, Robert Ross

  129. 129 From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality, Gregory Mann

  130. 130 Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria, A. Carl LeVan

  131. 131 Water, Civilization and Power in Sudan: The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building, Harry Verhoeven

  132. 132 The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914–2014, Kate Skinner

  133. 133 Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization, Emma Hunter

  134. 134 Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola, 1975–2002, Justin Pearce

  135. 135 From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerian Sahel, 1800–2000, Benedetta Rossi

  136. 136 National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps, Christian A. Williams

  137. 137 Africans: A History of a Continent, 3rd edition, John Iliffe

  138. 138 Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa, Jonathon L. Earle

  139. 139 The Struggle over State Power in Zimbabwe: Law and Politics since 1950, George Karekwaivanane

  140. 140 Transforming Sudan: Decolonisation, Economic Development and State Formation, Alden Young

  141. 141 Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Elizabeth Thornberry

  142. 142 The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara, Julien Brachet and Judith Scheele

  143. 143 The Politics of Poverty: Policy-Making and Development in Rural Tanzania, Felicitas Becker

  144. 144 Boundaries, Communities, and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins, Paul Nugent

  145. 145 Politics and Violence in Burundi: The Language of Truth in an Emerging State, Aidan Russell

  146. 146 Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years, Anaïs Angelo

  147. 147 East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security and the State since the 1980s, Jonathan Fisher

  148. 148 Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith: Ahmad Lobbo, the Tārı̄kh al-fattāsh and the Making of an Islamic State in West Africa, Mauro Nobili

  149. 149 Shaping the African Savannah: From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia, Michael Bollig

  150. 150 France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa, Nathaniel K. Powell

  151. 151 Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970, Terje Østebø

  152. 152 The Path to Genocide in Rwanda: Security, Opportunity, and Authority in an Ethnocratic State, Omar Shahabudin McDoom

  153. 153 Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia, Robtel Neajai Pailey

  154. 154 Salafism and Political Order in Africa, Sebastian Elischer

  155. 155 Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law and the Courts since 2000, Susanne Verheul

  156. 156 Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974, George Roberts

  157. 157 Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960–1984, Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia

  158. 158 Conflicts of Colonialism: The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye, Richard L. Roberts

  159. 159 Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change, Erin Pettigrew

  160. 160 Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery and Inequality, Mariana P. Candido

  161. 161 Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers

  162. 162 Plunder for Profit: A Socio-environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, Elijah Doro

  163. 163 Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone, Laura S. Martin

  164. 164 Arming Black Consciousness: The Azanian Black Nationalist Tradition and South Africa’s Armed Struggle, Toivo Tukongeni Paul Wilson Asheeke

  165. 165 Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal, Bernard Moitt

  166. 166 African Military Politics in the Sahel: Regional Organizations and International Politics, Katharina P.W. Döring

  167. 167 Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: Colonialism, Professionalism and Race, Marc T. Howard

  168. 168 Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis, Tom Lavers

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