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Jonas, Raymond Anthony.

The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire / Ra ymond Jonas. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - x, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Ba ratieri chooses -- Armies meet -- The center crumbles -- pt. 3. Afterma ths -- Despair, panic, pursuit -- The harvest -- The long march -- Sons and lovers and accidental anthropologists -- Menelik abroad -- Reckoni ngs -- Rescues -- Passings.

ISBN: 9780674052741 (alk. paper) 0674052749 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2011-014346

Subjects--Personal Names:
Menelik Negus of Ethiopia, II, 1844-1913.
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -191 8.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Italy--Foreign relations--Ethiopia.
Ethiopia--Foreign relations--Italy.

Dewey Class. No.: 963/.043