A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991. Bahru Zewde

edition 2001

      2 3 4 5 05

      eBook edition published 2016

      Ohio University Press

       www.ohioswallow.com

      James Currey

      Boydell & Brewer Ltd

      PO Box 9, Woodbridge

      Suffolk IP12 3DF (GB)

       www.jamescurrey.com

      Boydell & Brewer Inc.

      668 Mt Hope Avenue

      Rochester, NY 14620-2731 (US)

       www.boydellandbrewer.com

       British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Bahru Zewde

      A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991. - 2nd ed. - (Eastern African studies)

      1. Ethiopia. History - 19th century 2. Ethiopia - History - 20th century

      I. Title

      963'.05

      ISBN 0-85255-786-8 (James Currey paper)

       Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data is available

      ISBN 0-8214-1440-2 (Ohio University Press paper)

      Maps by Katherine Kirkwood

      Typeset in 10/12pt Baskerville by Colset Pte Ltd Singapore and revisions to second edition by Longhouse Publishing Services, Cumbria

      Printed and bound in Britain

      by Woolnough, Irthlingborough

      ISBN 978-1-78204-786-5 (James Currey ePub eISBN)

      ISBN 978-1-78204-986-9 (James Currey ePDF eISBN)

      ISBN 978-0-8214-4572-3 (Ohio University Press eISBN)

       To Kaleb

       Contents

       Illustrations

       Maps

       Sources of illustrations

       Acronyms

       Preface

       Preface to the Second Edition

       Introduction

       1. The background

       1. The internal scene in the first half of the nineteenth century

       The northern principalities

       States and peoples of southern Ethiopia

       The link: long-distance trade

       2. The external challenge

       Renewed European interest

       Egyptian expansion

       2. Unification and Independence 1855-1896

       1. The first response: Kasa - Tewodros

       Tewodros as modernizer

       Tewodros and the foreigners

       The end of Tewodros

       2. A new approach to unification

       3. Intensification of the external challenge

       Gundat and Gura: victory without peace

       4. The road to Matamma

       5. The creation of the modern Ethiopian empire-state

       The process of expansion

       The birth of a capital

       Crisis in the socio-economic order: the ‘Great Ethiopian Famine’, 1888–1892

       6. Resolution of the external challenge

       The campaign of Adwa

       3. From Adwa to Maychaw 1896-1935

       1. The historical significance of Adwa

       2. The socio-economic order

       Mode of surplus appropriation

       Trade

       Concessions

       Modern education and the birth of an intelligentsia

       3. Political developments

       The decade of consolidation (1896–1906)

       Power struggle (1908–1930)

       The problem of succession

       The Iyyasu interlude

       Creeping autocracy (1916–1930)

       The emergence of absolutism (1930–1935)

       4. The Italian Occupation 1936-1941

       1. The Italo-Ethiopian war

       2. Italian rule