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200 12$aA history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991 /$fBahru Zewde$b[electronic resource]
205   $aSecond edition.
210  1$aOxford :$cJames Curry,$d2001.
215   $a1 online resource (xix, 300 pages)$cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aEastern African studies
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2017).
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327   $tIntroduction --$t1: The background --$t1. The internal scene in the first half of the nineteenth century --$t2. The external challenge --$t2: Unification and Independence 1855-1896 --$t1. The first response: Kasa - Tewodros --$t2. A new approach to unification --$t3. Intensification of the external challenge --$t4. The road to Matamma --$t5. The creation of the modern Ethiopian empire-state --$t6. Resolution of the external challenge --$t3: From Adwa to Maychaw 1896-1935 --$t1. The historical significance of Adwa --$t2. The socio-economic order --$t3. Political developments --$t4: The Italian Occupation 1936-1941 --$t1. The Italo-Ethiopian war --$t2. Italian rule --$t3. The Resistance  --$t5: From Liberation to Revolution 1941-1974 --$t1. The international setting --$t2. The socio-economic scene --$t3. Consolidation of absolutism --$t4. Opposition --$t6: Revolution and its Sequel --$t1. Typology --$t2. The popular upsurge --$t3. The 'creeping coup' --$t4. Military rule and its opponents --$t5. The ideological schooling of the Darg --$t6. Towards one-man rule --$t7. The end --$tConclusion
330   $aBahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991.<br><br>'The new chapter enhances the value of the book as the best historical introduction to modern Ethiopia. The account of the Revolution, contained in 41 pages, is nuanced and worthy of attention in its own right... In short, the updating of an already indispensable book.'<br>Donald Crummey, <i>Journal of Modern African Studies</i><br><br>North America: Ohio U Press; Ethiopia: Addis Ababa U Press
410  0$aEastern African studies (London, England)
607   $aEthiopia$xHistory$y19th century
607   $aEthiopia$xHistory$y1889-1974
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