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The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire /
In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In defending its independence, Ethiopia cast doubt on the assumption that all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans, and opened a breach that would lead to the continent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.