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The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire / Ra ymond Jonas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.Description: x, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674052741 (alk. paper)
  • 0674052749 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 963/.043 22
Contents:
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.
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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.

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