The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire / Raymond Jonas.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Description: x, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9780674052741 (alk. paper); 0674052749 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913 | Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918 | Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896 | Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896 | Italy -- Foreign relations -- Ethiopia | Ethiopia -- Foreign relations -- ItalyDDC classification: 963/.043 LOC classification: DT387.3. | J67 2011
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.