History of Ethiopia

Name: History of Ethiopia
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ISBN: 9780313322730

ISBN-10: 0313322732

ISBN-13: 9780313322730

Edition: 2006

Authors: Saheed A. Adejumobi, Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling

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Engaging and informative, this historical narrative provides an excellent introduction to the history of Ethiopia from the classical era through the modern age. The acute historical analysis contained in this volume allows readers to critically interrogate shifting global power configurations from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century, and the related implications in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. Adejumobi identifies a second wave of globalization, beginning in the nineteenth century, which laid the foundation for a highly textured Ethiopian "Afromodern" twentieth century. The book explores Ethiopia's efforts at charting an independent course in the face of…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 12/30/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Series Foreword


Preface and Acknowledgment


Timeline of Ethiopian History



Ethiopia: Intellectual and Cultural Background



Globalization and Modernization to Late Nineteenth Century



"Afromodern" Aspirations: Political Expansion and Social Reform in Local and Global Contexts, 1884-1935



World War II and Aftermath: Reconstruction and Other Contradictions, 1935-1960



Conservatives and Liberal Reforms, 1960-1974



"Afro-Marxism": Engaging Local and Global Orthodoxies and the Price of Revolution, 1974-1991



Globalization and Other Postmodern Configurations: Ethiopia at Home and Abroad Since 1991


Notable People in the History of Ethiopia


Selected Bibliography


Index