3.18. Empress Taytu Betul, wife of Emperor Menilek II
3.19. Dajjach Gabra-Sellase Barya-Gabr, ruler of Adwa, and one of the leading spokesmen against Empress Taytu in 1910
3.20. Abuna Mattewos, Egyptian archbishop of Ethiopia from 1889-1926
3.21. The quragna system, whereby plaintiff and defendant were chained together until justice was done
3.22. A leba shay, the traditional thief-detector, as he prepares to snuff out the culprit
3.23. Naggadras Hayla-Giyorgis Walda-Mikael, later Bitwaddad, Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Commerce after 1907 and de facto prime minister during the reign of Iyyasu
3.24. Empress Zawditu Menilek, r. 1916-1930
3.25. Fitawrari Habta-Giyorgis Dinagde, Minister of War from 1907-1926
3.26. Dajjach Balcha Safo, hero of the Battle of Adwa, and one of the conservative opponents of Ras Tafari Makonnen
3.27. Dajjach Abba Weqaw Berru, leader of a mutiny against Ras Tafari Makonnen in 1928
3.28. Ras Gugsa Wale, husband of Empress Zawditu, and governor of Bagemder
3.29. A traditional painting depicting the Battle of Anchem, 1930
3.30. Emperor Hayla-Sellase, r. 1930–1974
3.31. Bajerond Takla-Hawaryat Takla-Maryam, the Russian educated intellectual who drafted the 1931 Constitution
3.32. Ras Haylu Takla-Haymanot, hereditary ruler of Gojjam from 1901–1932
3.33. Dajjach Seyum Mangasha, later Ras, hereditary ruler of Tegre
3.34. Troops of the Imperial Bodyguard, 1935
4.1. Amba Aradom, where Ethiopian troops commanded by Ras Mulugeta Yeggazu were heavily defeated by the Italians in February 1936
4.2. Ras Mulugeta Yeggazu, holder of various ministerial posts and provincial governorships, one of the commanders on the northern front in 1935–1936
4.3. An Ethiopian soldier leaving for the Ogaden front bids farewell to his relatives, November 1935
4.4. Ras Abbaba Aragay, most renowned leader of the Reststance in Shawa
4.5. Ras Emeru Hayla-Sellase, commander of the Shere front in 1935–1936, and leader of the Black Lion Resistance operations in south-western Ethiopia
4.6. Ras Dasta Damtaw, commander of the southern front in 1935–1936
4.7 and 4.8. Moments before and after the attempt on the life of the Italian viceroy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, in Addis Ababa, 19 February 1937
4.9. Shawaragad Gadle, an undercover patriot instrumental in the storming of the Italian stronghold at Addis Alam
4.10. Dr Alamawarq Bayyana, president of the Black Lion Resistance organization
5.1. Qagnaw, the United States base at Asmara established following the Ethio-US Treaty of 1953
5.2. Pack animals competing for the runway with a DC-3 aircraft of Ethiopian Airlines
5.3. Tsahafe T’ezaz Walda-Giyorgis Walda-Yohannes, the most powerful figure under Hayla-Sellase in the period 1941-1955
5.4. Ras Bitwaddad Makonnen Endalkachaw, prime minister in the period 1943-1957
5.5. Tsahafe T’ezaz Aklilu Habta-Wald, prime minister from 1961-1974
5.6. Major-General Mulugeta Buli, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Bodyguard from 1941-1955
5.7. The leaders of the abortive coup d’etat of 1960, Brigadier General Mangestu Neway and Garmame Neway
5.8. A student demonstration against the Hayla-Sellase regime
6.1. The building in the Fourth Division headquarters where the Darg was born
6.2. Emperor Hayla-Sellase soon after his deposition and the Volkswagen ‘beetle’ that took him to his place of detention
6.3. Lt. General Aman Mikael Andom responding to the cheers of the Eritrean public during a rally at the Asmara stadium
6.4. Zamach students engaged in one of their daily chores, fetching water
6.5. Partial view of the huge public demonstration that hailed the rural land reform proclamation
6.6. Mangestu Hayla-Mariam playing the meek subaltern
6.7. Three of the highest officials of the Darg: Mangestu, Atnafu and Sisay
6.8. Fighters of the Tegray People’s Liberation Front
Maps
2. Linguistic map of Ethiopia, showing the distribution by the nineteenth century
3. Ethiopia in the nineteenth century
4. Trade routes of the nineteenth century
5. Major battle sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
6. Ethiopia, 1935
7. ‘Italian East Africa’, 1936-1941
8. Ethiopia, 1974
Sources of Illustrations
Art Gallery of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa: cover/3.29
Kurt Herzbruch. Abessinien. Munich, 1925, Fr. Seybold Verlag: 1.1, 3.23
Hormuzd Rassam. Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia, II.
London, 1869, John Murray: 2.1
Henry A. Stern. The Captive Missionary. London, 1868, Cassell, Petter & Galpin: 2 2
Photographic collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University: 2.4, 2.8, 2.11, 2.15, 3.4, 3.6, 3.10, 3.11, 3.17, 3.19, 3.30, 4.1, 4.4, 4.9, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7
– (Album of the British Expedition to Maqdala, 1867-1868): 2.3
– (Album Charles Michel-Cote, Ethiopie-Soudan, 1919-1920): 2.7
E. Canevari and G. Comisso. Il generale Tommaso Salsa e le sue campagne coloniali. Milan, 1935, A. Mondadori: 2.5
Achille Bizzone. Eritrea nel passate e nel presente. Milan, 1897, Società editrice Sonzogno: