Author

Publication

1997 - Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

85,000 words, Guess

Page Count

340 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL669685M
  • ISBN-101569020469
  • OCLC Control Number36900747
  • Library of Congress Control Number97015552
  • Goodreads740117
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  • LibraryThing3036751

Classifications

  • DDC963.507
  • LCCDT397 .C67 1997

Description

Against All Odds is the firsthand account of Eritrea's epic 30-year struggle for political independence and social justice. With almost no outside support, Eritrean nationalists brought successive U.S.- and Soviet-backed Ethiopian governments to their knees. At the same time, they worked to liberate women, workers and peasant farmers from centuries of grinding poverty, chronic hunger and numbing oppression. Connell argues that it was the blending of a social revolution with political objectives that enabled this uniquely self-reliant liberation front to weld Eritrea's fractious society - half Christian, half Muslim, from nine ethnic groups - into one of the most remarkable fighting forces in modern history. In a new Afterword, he describes their efforts to translate wartime values and experience into sustainable strategies for developing the new country.

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Other Editions

  • Against all odds: a chronicle of the Eritrean revolution : with a new foreword on the postwar transitionRed Sea Press1997-01-01

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