| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 348 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Third World Colonialism and Strategies of Liberation: Eritrea and East Timor Compared; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Imperialism by Adjacency and Colonialism; Grand Strategy and the Global South; State Terrorism and the Restraint of Nonstate Opponents; Colonial Nationalism Reified; Imperial Roots and Colonial Origins of the Recolonizers and the Recolonized; The Ethiopian Empire; Recolonizing the "Firstborn" Italian Colony of Eritrea; Modern Indonesia: Srivijayas Successor?; East Timor: From Portugals Colony to Indonesias "Orphan"; Conclusion. |
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I Swaggering Empires and Defiant "New Provinces"The Cold War Curse; Cold War Eritrea: Bullets for Rejecting a Merger with Ethiopia; Cold War East Timor; Domestic Conditions Surrounding the Outbreak of Open Resistance; Fluctuating Eritrean Waters; East Timors Strong Political Base; Early Phases of Eritrean and East Timorese Resistance; Escalating Resistance and Attendant Challenges in Eritrea; Crumbling of Conventional Defense Strategy in East Timor; Conclusion; 2 Bittersweet Replicas of Foreign Experiences and Reform; Root Causes for Eritrean Reform and East Timorese Reorientation. |
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From Haphazard to Strategic: Faulty Eritrean InitiativeElusive Reform of ELF Zonal Command and Bifurcation of the Eritrean Movement; Birth of a Secret Party and the Immediate Causes of Breakup; Ineffectual Experiment of the East Timorese Resistance; Inception and End of Guerrilla Support Bases; The Fall of Resistance Superstructures and Leadership; Conclusion; 3 Toward Reorganization and Reorientation: Eritrean Fragmentation and East Timorese Near Defeat; Decisive Structural Factors; Ethiopian and Indonesian Counterinsurgencies; "We Need Eritrea for Its Land, Not Its People." |
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Indonesian Elite Consensus Falls Short of VictoryThe Backlash of Genocidal Invasion and Occupation; Indonesian Approach to Counterinsurgency in East Timor; Indonesia Kills Surrendering Insurgents and Commits Many Abuses; Surviving and Moving Beyond the Challenges: Eritrean Splinter Groups Coalesce into a Maoist Movement; Splinter Groups Unify around Secular, Inclusive Philosophy; Surviving and Moving Beyond the Challenges: East Timorese Resistance from the Jaws of Defeat; Conclusion; 4 Victims of Their Own Success: The Revitalized Nationalist Movements and Their Challenges. |
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Rivalry and Balance of Power among Eritrean NationalistsThe ELF's Strategic Oblivion and Lethal Internecine Squabbles; The Onset of Internal Cohesion and Self-Reliance; Eritrean Insurgents Go on the Offensive; Ethiopian Realignment that Shifted the Balance of Power; Developments in East Timor and Within the Resistance Movement; The Catholic Church in East Timor Protests; Fostering the Churchs Sympathy into Active Support; The Indonesians Hone Their Intelligence about the Insurgency; Seeking International Recognition; Internal Friction and Innocuous Divisions among Guerrilla Leaders. |
| Summary |
Shows how Eritrea and East Timor developed sophisticated strategies to liberate their countries from colonialism, and emphasizes that these insurgencies avoided terrorism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Revolution (Eritrea : 1962-1993) |
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Eritrea -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
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Eritrea. |
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History. |
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Autonomy and independence movements. |
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National liberation movements -- Eritrea.
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National liberation movements. |
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Eritrea -- History -- Revolution, 1962-1993.
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Timor-Leste -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
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Timor-Leste. |
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National liberation movements -- Timor-Leste.
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| Chronological Term |
1962-1993 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde. Third world colonialism and strategies of liberation. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107031234 (DLC) 2012025692 (OCoLC)798059494 |
| ISBN |
9781139845328 (electronic book) |
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1139845322 (electronic book) |
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9781139840590 (electronic book) |
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1139840592 (electronic book) |
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9781139381369 (electronic book) |
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1139381369 (electronic book) |
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9781139842969 (electronic book) |
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113984296X (electronic book) |
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128383636X |
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9781283836364 |
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9781107031234 |
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1107031230 |
