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The Battle of Adwa African victory in the age of empire /

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Main Author: Jonas, Raymond Anthony
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Menelik > II, > Negus of Ethiopia, > 1844-1913.
Taitu, > Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, > d. 1918.
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
Italy > Foreign relations > Ethiopia.
Ethiopia > Foreign relations > Italy.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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