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000458436 1001_ $$aJonas, Raymond Anthony.
000458436 24514 $$aThe Battle of Adwa$$h[electronic resource] :$$bAfrican victory in the age of empire /$$cRaymond Jonas.
000458436 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2011.
000458436 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 413 p.) :$$bill., maps.
000458436 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000458436 5050_ $$apt. 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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000458436 520__ $$aIn March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa.Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
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000458436 60000 $$aMenelik$$bII,$$cNegus of Ethiopia,$$d1844-1913.
000458436 60000 $$aTaitu,$$cEmpress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia,$$d-1918.
000458436 650_0 $$aAdwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
000458436 650_0 $$aItalo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
000458436 651_0 $$aItaly$$xForeign relations$$zEthiopia.
000458436 651_0 $$aEthiopia$$xForeign relations$$zItaly.
000458436 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aJonas, Raymond Anthony.$$tBattle of Adwa.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674052741$$w(DLC) 2011014346$$w(OCoLC)709670303
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