The Battle of Adwa [electronic resource] : African victory in the age of empire / Raymond Jonas.
Jonas, Raymond Anthony.
2011
DT387.3 .J67 2011eb
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Title The Battle of Adwa [electronic resource] : African victory in the age of empire / Raymond Jonas.
Author Jonas, Raymond Anthony.
ISBN 9780674062795 electronic book
9780674052741
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 413 p.) : ill., maps.
Call Number DT387.3 .J67 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 963/.043
Summary 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 Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa.Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
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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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