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Haile Selassie : his rise, his fall /
With scholars far from agreement in their opinions of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, the questions remain: Who was Haile Selassie? What was the secret of his survival across half a century--and how did he come to be a virtual exile in his own country, then murdered, the last emperor in a centuries-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; copyright page; Contents; Map of Ethiopia in the 1960s; Preface; Ethiopian Names and Titles; Haile Selassie in his prime, mid-1950s; Ch1- A Political Icon; Notes; Ch2- In Father's Shadow; The Admired Father; Harar; Victorious Ethiopia; Jerusalem and Europe; Father's Legacy; Ras Makonnen and his son Tafari, probably 1903; Notes; Ch3- The Road to Power; Menelik's Heir-Lij Iyasu; Tafari and Emperor Menelik, probably 1906; Back in Harar; A Friend for Life; Iyasu and the Gamble on Islam; The Deposition of Iyasu; The End of the Somali Mawla; Notes; Ch4- The Crown; The Old Guard
- First Empress Since the Queen of ShebaA Prince and a Modernizer; A Long Trip to Europe; France-the Mother of Modernization; Italy-Mussolini Still Young; Britain-Discord on the Nile; "Taming" the Ethiopians; Egypt and Jerusalem; Negus Tafari; Emperor, King of Kings, Lion of Judah; The imperial family after the coronation; Notes; Ch5- Facing Mussolini; The Young Ethiopians; A Modern Constitution; The Christian King; The British, the Nile, and Mussolini; Back to Center Stage-Tigray; Italy and "Political Tigrinya"; The Death of a Princess; The Traitor and Mussolini's Strategy
- Mussolini Drives EscalationThe Ethiopian Defeat; On the eve of the Maichaw defeat, March 1936; Escape; Notes; Ch6- From Refugee to Liberator; Waterloo Station-No Flags; "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow."; On the Sidelines; Back to History; Gideon Force; Haile Selassie-the Nationalist Movement; Victory Parade; May 1941 on the stairs of Genet Lul Palace; Regaining Tigray; Notes; Ch7- Absolutism; British Help; The Hanging of Belay; Tigray-the "Woyane"; Restraining Political Islam; From the British to the Americans; Big Ego, Hard Work; "Elect of God"; Holy by Constitution; The Reformer
- Opening the Parliament, 1955Annexation of Eritrea; Notes; Ch8- The Road to Loneliness; In the United States:"And He Shall Reign Forever and Ever"; With the British Lion, Again; The Changing World-Bandung; Nasser-Smiling and Disconnecting; The Lion of Judah and Israel; The Rebels of 1960; The Coup and Its Suppression; The hanging of Colonel Warqneh Gabayhu; Loneliness; Notes; Ch9- We Are Not God; No One Would Dare; The Nasserite Threat; Turning to Africa; Africa Comes to Addis Ababa-the Organization of African Unity; Africa's Eldest Statesman
- Celebrating the establishment of the Organization for African Unity, 1963Ethiopia Lags Behind; Global Standing and Personal Cult; "A Man Who Has Made Us What We Are Today"; Notes; Ch10- Nothing New Under the Sun; Israel and the Six-Day Salvation; American Negligence; New Challenges in the Region; With young army officers, 1964.; Searching for Moderates; A New Challenge at Home: The Students; All Is Quiet at the Top; "Alas, the Wise Man Dies-Just Like the Fool" (Ecclesiastes 2:16); "How Old Could He Be?"; Notes; Ch11- Revolution; Golda Would Not Enable a Nobel Prize; Nixon Refuses to Rearm