Anatomy of RebellionAnatomy of Rebellion provides an understanding of four rebellions that will make clear the factors that are crucial in the development of other rebellions. Seeking a political pattern in the process of rebellion, Claude Welch, Jr., has investigated four large-scale rural uprisings that came close to becoming revolutions: the Taiping rebellion in China 1850-64, the Telengana uprising in India of 1946-51, the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya of 1952-56, the Kwilu uprising in Zaire of 1963-65. Weaving the facts of these rebellions with theories about political violence, Welch follows the rebellions through the initial stages of discontent to the explosion of violence to the suppression of the uprisings. He then challenges explanations of political violence, both Marxist and non-Marxist, that other scholars have proposed. Rebellions have not been studied as thoroughly as the major successful revolutions, although the frequency of rebellions in the modern world is not likely to diminish. Rural dwellers' discontents are still clashing with central governments' ambitions; Anatomy of Rebellion clarifies how this volatile type of political violence occurs. |
Contents
The Four Rebellions and Their Physical Settings | 4 |
The Telengana RebellionIndia 194651 | 10 |
The Mau Mau RebellionKenya 19521956 | 15 |
The Kwilu RebellionZaire 19631965 | 19 |
Geographic Marginality | 24 |
Natural Disaster and Collective Political Violence | 26 |
Land Scarcity Ownership and the Subsistence Ethic | 27 |
The Bases for Collective Political Violence | 32 |
Aspiration Denied | 160 |
Incumbent Response and the Actualization of Violence | 169 |
Imperial Ineptitude and Power Deflation | 176 |
Village Initiation and Landlord Response | 181 |
Nationalist Agitation or Incumbent Provocation? | 185 |
Military Indiscipline and Public Discontent | 194 |
Leaders Organizations and the Coordination of Dissent | 200 |
The God Worshippers and Other Organizational Types | 205 |
Inequity and Social Strain | 33 |
Collective Action and Social Structure | 36 |
Bases of Inequality in Late Ching China | 41 |
Communal and class perceptions of conflict | 52 |
Kikuyu Clans and Communal Land Tenure | 59 |
Economic Impetus to Ethnic Rebellion | 66 |
Alien Rule and the Potential for Discontent | 76 |
The Manchu Maintenance of Rural Control | 90 |
British Paramountcy in Theory Muslim Dominance in Fact | 97 |
Race Against Paramountcy | 104 |
Service through Domination | 115 |
THE POLITICIZATION OF DISCONTENT | 123 |
The Sense of Relative Deprivation | 126 |
The Uneven Nature of Rural Discontent | 128 |
The Uneven Nature of Politicization | 131 |
Hakka Perceptions of Threats to Livelihood | 135 |
The Intensification of Rural Indebtedness | 139 |
Alienation of Land and Alienation of Support | 148 |
Communal and Class Bases for Conflict | 210 |
Constraints on African Political Expression | 218 |
The Rewards of Opposition | 229 |
Ideology and the Justification and Direction of Rebellion | 238 |
How Christian? How Confucian? | 243 |
Maoist Maladaptation? | 253 |
Oaths and Basic Objectives | 258 |
Muleles Redefinition of Maoism | 264 |
REPRESSION AND RESURGENCE | 275 |
Repression + Concession Termination? | 278 |
Incorporation Reform and the Ebbing of Rebellion | 288 |
Lessons from Malaya and the Loyalists Role | 294 |
Ineffectual Repression Inept Pacification | 303 |
The Continuity of Protest and the Significance of Politics | 314 |
Notes | 336 |
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