Donald N. Levine is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where he served as dean of the College from 1982 to 1987. He is the author of several books, including Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society and Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

"A superb book." (New Yorker) "Ethiopia's abiding problem is the symbiosis of her autochthonous civilization with the demands of an uncompromising modern world.... Nobody has yet described the dilemma, its origin, its magnitude and possible ways of resolving it with greater ability and understanding." (Times Literary Supplement)"

Donald N. Levine is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where he served as dean of the College from 1982 to 1987. He is the author of several books, including Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society and Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

"A superb book." (New Yorker) "Ethiopia's abiding problem is the symbiosis of her autochthonous civilization with the demands of an uncompromising modern world.... Nobody has yet described the dilemma, its origin, its magnitude and possible ways of resolving it with greater ability and understanding." (Times Literary Supplement)"

Donald N. Levine is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, where he served as dean of the College from 1982 to 1987. He is the author of several books, including Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society and Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

"A superb book." (New Yorker) "Ethiopia's abiding problem is the symbiosis of her autochthonous civilization with the demands of an uncompromising modern world.... Nobody has yet described the dilemma, its origin, its magnitude and possible ways of resolving it with greater ability and understanding." (Times Literary Supplement)"