03968nam 2200601 a 450 991081502720332120230831012541.00-674-06279-510.4159/harvard.9780674062795(CKB)2550000000074898(OCoLC)768411324(CaPaEBR)ebrary10518217(SSID)ssj0000550965(PQKBManifestationID)11345713(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550965(PQKBWorkID)10524459(PQKB)10159136(MiAaPQ)EBC3301007(DE-B1597)178279(OCoLC)979904469(DE-B1597)9780674062795(Au-PeEL)EBL3301007(CaPaEBR)ebr10518217(EXLCZ)99255000000007489820110412d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Battle of Adwa[electronic resource] African victory in the age of empire /Raymond JonasCambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20111 online resource (426 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-05274-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896ItalyForeign relationsEthiopiaEthiopiaForeign relationsItalyAdwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.963/.043Jonas Raymond1954-596815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815027203321The Battle of Adwa3947674UNINA