The Battle of Adwa : African Victory in the Age of Empire / Raymond Jonas.
Jonas, Raymond, author.
2011
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Title The Battle of Adwa : African Victory in the Age of Empire / Raymond Jonas.
Author Jonas, Raymond, author.
ISBN 9780674062795
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062795
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
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Description 1 online resource : 38 halftones, 6 maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674062795 doi
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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Frontmatter
Contents
Maps and Illustrations
Introduction
Part I. The Road to Adwa
Chapter 1. Courtly Ambitions
Chapter 2. Listing toward Adwa
Chapter 3. Italy in Africa
Chapter 4. The Price of Liberty
Chapter 5. Black in Service of White
Chapter 6. Africa in Italy
Chapter 7. "Something Humiliating for My Kingdom"
Part II. The Battle
Chapter 8. Menelik's March
Chapter 9. Amba Alage
Chapter 10. Stalled at Sauria
Chapter 11. Baratieri Chooses
Chapter 12. Armies Meet
Chapter 13. The Center Crumbles
Part III. Aftermaths
Chapter 14. Despair, Panic, Pursuit
Chapter 15. The Harvest
Chapter 16. The Long March
Chapter 17. Sons and Lovers and Accidental Anthropologists
Chapter 18. Menelik Abroad
Chapter 19. Reckonings
Chapter 20. Rescues
Chapter 21. Passings
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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