The first ethnography of the Eritrean struggle for independence documents the transnational dimensions of revolution and nation-building from the dual perspective of both Eritrea and its U.S. diaspora.

List of Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1. Eritrea and Exile
Chapter 2. A Tale of Two Fronts: Nationalism and Political Identity in the ELF and EPLF
Chapter 3. Transnational Tegadelti: Fighters and Exiles in the 1970s
Chapter 4. Eritrea in Exile: Refugees and Community Building in the United States
Chapter 5. Ties That Bind and Sometimes Choke: TransnationalDissonance in Eritrea and Exile
Chapter 6. A Painful Paradox: Transnational Civil Society and the Sovereign State
Notes
Glossary of Tigrinya Terms and Phrases
References
Index
Acknowledgments

Tricia Redeker Hepner teaches anthropology at the University of Tennessee.