A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991. Bahru ZewdeЧитать онлайн книгу.
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
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
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
2.6. 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