Yohannes IV of Ethiopia
Author | : Zewde Gabre-Sellassie |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zewde Gabre-Sellassie |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Norbert C. Brockman |
Publisher | : Grey House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Up-to-date and representative of African societies as a whole, An African Biographical Dictionary provides a wealth of vital information for students of African culture and is an indispensable reference guide for anyone interested in African affairs.
Author | : Gebru Tareke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bairu Tafla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Ethiopia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raymond Jonas |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2011-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674062795 |
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule. Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa. Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
Author | : Sean McLachlan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849084580 |
In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbours in creating an international empire, and her eyes turned toward Africa as a source of potential colonies. Securing a foothold in Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, the Italians quickly became embroiled in a shooting war with the Ethiopians. The war proved a disaster for the Italians, who suffered three major defeats against the forces of Emperor Menelik's army, including a horrendous massacre at Adowa, the largest defeat of a colonial army prior to World War I. This book looks at the campaign with an emphasis on the colourful uniforms worn by both sides.
Author | : Bairu Tafla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian J. Yates |
Publisher | : Rochester Studies in African H |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2019-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580469809 |
Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society.
Author | : Alemseged Abbay |
Publisher | : The Red Sea Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781569020722 |
In this bold study of modern ethno-regional nationalism, the author examines the divergent paths taken by the nationalist insurgencies in Tigray and Eritrea. The author argues that Tigrayans, south of the Mereb River, and Kebessa (highlands) Eritreans, north of the Mereb, are ethnically one people, tied by common history, political economy, myth, language and religion. Both fought against a common enemy, an oppressive Amhara ethnic state, for a period of seventeen and thirty years, respectively. In the process of the armed struggle, however, each evolved separate political identities and, after jointly marching to military victory in 1991, they followed separate political paths - Eritreans created the newest state in Africa and Tigrayans remained within the Ethiopian body politic.
Author | : Mordechai Abir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Examines the religious and political evolution of Ethiopia that led to the foundation of the Christian dynastic rule now governing the country.