TY - BOOK AU - Pankhurst,Richard TI - The Ethiopians: a history T2 - The peoples of Africa SN - 0631224939 (pbk.) PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford, UK, Malden, Mass. PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Ethnology KW - Ethiopia KW - History N1 - 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 ER -