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Jonas, Raymond Anthony.
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Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913.
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, d. 1918.
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
Italy -- Foreign relations -- Ethiopia.
Ethiopia -- Foreign relations -- Italy.
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The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire / Raymond Jonas.
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Jonas, Raymond Anthony.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects
Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913.
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, d. 1918.
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
Italy -- Foreign relations -- Ethiopia.
Ethiopia -- Foreign relations -- Italy.
ISBN:
9780674052741 (alk. paper)
0674052749 (alk. paper)
Description:
x, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Pt. 1. The road to Adwa -- Courtly ambitions -- Listing toward Adwa -- Italy in Africa -- The price of liberty -- Black in service of white -- Africa in Italy -- "Something humiliating for my kingdom" -- pt. 2. The battle -- Menelik's march -- Amba Alage -- Stalled at Sauria -- Baratieri chooses -- Armies meet -- The center crumbles -- pt. 3. Aftermaths -- Despair, panic, pursuit -- The harvest -- The long march -- Sons and lovers and accidental anthropologists -- Menelik abroad -- Reckonings -- Rescues -- Passings.
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