The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire - Jonas, Raymond Anthony (Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Menelik -- II, -- Negus of Ethiopia, -- 1844-1913.; Taitu, -- Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -- -191 8.; Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.; Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.; Italy -- Foreign relations -- Ethiopia; Ethiopia -- Foreign relations -- Italy