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The Ethiopians : a history / Richard Pankhurst.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Peoples of AfricaPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.Description: xiv, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0631224939 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Prehistory and geography -- Punt, pharaohs and ptolemies, the Aksumite Kingdom, and the coming of Christianity -- The Zagwé Dynasty, Lalibala Churches, and the Solomonic 'restoration' -- Life in the Middle Ages: contacts with Muslim neighbours and far-off Christians -- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, Oromo migration, and Ottoman seizure of Massawa -- The move of capital north-west and the Roman Catholic interlude -- The rise and fall of Gondar -- The early nineteenth century and the advent of Téwodros II -- Yohannes, Menilek and the European powers -- Beginnings of modernization: menilek, Iyasu, Zawditu and Haile Sellassie -- Invasion, occupation and liberation -- Restoration and revolution.
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Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-286) and index.

Prehistory and geography -- Punt, pharaohs and ptolemies, the Aksumite Kingdom, and the coming of Christianity -- The Zagwé Dynasty, Lalibala Churches, and the Solomonic 'restoration' -- Life in the Middle Ages: contacts with Muslim neighbours and far-off Christians -- Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, Oromo migration, and Ottoman seizure of Massawa -- The move of capital north-west and the Roman Catholic interlude -- The rise and fall of Gondar -- The early nineteenth century and the advent of Téwodros II -- Yohannes, Menilek and the European powers -- Beginnings of modernization: menilek, Iyasu, Zawditu and Haile Sellassie -- Invasion, occupation and liberation -- Restoration and revolution.

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