Ethiopia trounced the Italians in 1896 in the greatest African victory over Europe since
Hannibal, but failed to prevent the loss of Eritrea. The event was a powerful constitutive force …

This is the story of a world turned upside down. On the first of March, 1896, not far from the
Ethiopian town of Adwa, an African army won a spectacular victory over a Eu ro pe an army …

In 1991, as the Cold War drew to an end, the only African country that had never been
colonized by European imperialists was but a pale reflection of the Great Ethiopia that …

Traces the modern history of Ethiopia in a series of articles, focusing on the connection
between Ethiopia's unique internal sociopolitics and the fact that it was the only country in …

An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern
nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over …

This insightful book relates how Emperor Haile Selassie helped shape America's image of
Africa and how that image continues to evolve in the United States today. The Lion of Judah …

This work is organized as follows—Of What Race Are the Ethiopians? General History of
Ethiopia Other Highlights of Ethiopian History The Story of Italian Aggression Against …

First published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century
European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches …

Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the southeast, and
Eritrea and Djibouti to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal country in the geopolitics of the …

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades
at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and …