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The Ethiopians : a history / Richard Pankhurst.
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TextSeries: Peoples of AfricaPublication details: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.Description: xiv, 299 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0631224939 (pbk.)
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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| 960.09 D252A The African Genius | 960.09 R891W Winds of change | 963 H528L Layers of time : | 963 P187E The Ethiopians : | 965.03 K46C Commander of the faithful : | 968.064 M271A The autobiography of Nelson Mandela : long walk to freedom / | 969.82 B623C Concise history of Mauritius / |
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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