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

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       5. From Liberation to Revolution 1941-1974

       1. The international setting

       The British decade

       The American era

       2. The socio-economic scene

       Agriculture and land tenure

       Trade and industry

       3. Consolidation of absolutism

       The emperor

       The governing élite

       The Revised Constitution of 1955

       The apparatus of coercion

       4. Opposition

       Plots and conspiracies

       The attempted coup d’état of 1960

       Peasant rebellions

       Eritrea: federation, union and separatism

       The Ethiopian Student Movement

       6. Revolution and its Sequel

       1. Typology

       2. The popular upsurge

       3. The ‘creeping coup’

       4. Military rule and its opponents

       5. The ideological schooling of the Darg

       6. Towards one-man rule

       7. The end

       Ethno-nationalist insurgency

       Economic crisis

       Global change

       The final offensives

       Conclusion

       Glossary

       Notes on transliteration

       Personal names

       Index

       Illustrations

       Cover: A traditional painting depicting the Battle of Anchem

       Prelims: A session of Ethiopia’s first parliament being addressed by Emperor Hayla-Sellase I, 1935

       1.1. The city of Harar as it appeared in the first decade of the twentieth century

       2.1. Emperor Tewodros II’s mortar ‘Sebastopol’ being dragged up the slopes of Maqdala

       2.2. The prisoners of Emperor Tewodros II

       2.3. A sketch of Dajjach Kasa Mercha, the future Emperor Yohannes IV

       2.4. Negus Takla-Haymanot, hereditary ruler of Gojjam

       2.5. Ras Alula Engeda, Emperor Yohannes’s governor of the Marab Melash, and implacable opponent of Italian encroachment

       2.6. The port town of Massawa towards the end of the nineteenth century

       2.7. Dajjach Gabra-Egziabber (Kumsa) Moroda, ruler of Leqa Naqamte

       2.8. Abba Jifar II, ruler of Jimma

       2.9. Emir Abdullahi, ruler of the Harar emirate

       2.10. Kawa Tona, the last king of Walayta

       2.11. Emperor Menilek II and some of his nobles

       2.12. Tato Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kafa

       2.13. Ankobar, capital of the Shawan kings until Negus Menilek moved to Entotto and then to Addis Ababa

       2.14. A view of Arada, the Addis Ababa market, 1935

       2.15. Ras Mangasha Yohannes, son of Emperor Yohannes IV, and hereditary ruler of Tegre

       3.1. A gabbar and his son in north-eastern Shawa

       3.2. Foreign visitors receiving dergo, the provisions that peasants were compelled to supply by royal order

       3.3. Dajjach Dames Nasibu, later Ras, governor of Wallaga

       3.4. Ras Berru Walda-Gabr’el, Minister of War after the death of Fitawrari Habta-Giyorgis in 1926

       3.5. A street scene in down-town Addis Ababa, 1935

       3.6. A commemorative picture taken on the occasion of a reception in honour of a French mission, 1929

       3.7. A train arriving at Dire Dawa railway station

       3.8. Bank of Abyssinia, c 1910

       3.9. An Ethiopian delegation to Europe, 1911

       3.10. Hakim Warqenah Eshate (Dr Martin)

       3.11. Naggadras Gabra-Heywat Baykadagn, a leading intellectual of the early twentieth century

       3.12. Blatten Geta Heray Walda-Sellase, prolific writer, and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1931-1936

       3.13. Tafari Makonnen School at about the time of its founding in 1925

       3.14. Students of an early twentieth-century school

       3.15. Emperor Menilek II, r. 1889-1913

       3.16. Ras Makonnen Walda-Mikael, governor of Harar, shown with the German mission to Ethiopia in 1905

       3.17. Lej Iyyasu and his father Ras


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