The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in The Age of Empire - Hardcover

Jonas, Raymond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674052749 ISBN 13: 9780674052741

Publisher: Belknap Press, 2011

Synopsis

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 Al

About this title

From the Author:

Winner of the Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for 2012 from the Association of Third World Studies

About the Author:

Raymond Jonas is Giovanni and Amne Costigan Professor of History at the University of Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0674052749
• ISBN 13: 9780674052741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432