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Contents

Illustrations

Maps

Sources of illustrations

Acronyms

Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1. The background

1. The internal scene in the first half of the nineteenth century

The northern principalities

States and peoples of southern Ethiopia

The link: long-distance trade

2. The external challenge

Renewed European interest

Egyptian expansion

2. Unification and Independence 1855-1896

1. The first response: Kasa - Tewodros

Tewodros as modernizer

Tewodros and the foreigners

The end of Tewodros

2. A new approach to unification

3. Intensification of the external challenge

Gundat and Gura: victory without peace

4. The road to Matamma

5. The creation of the modern Ethiopian empire-state

The process of expansion

The birth of a capital

Crisis in the socio-economic order: the ‘Great Ethiopian Famine’, 1888–1892

6. Resolution of the external challenge

The campaign of Adwa

3. From Adwa to Maychaw 1896-1935

1. The historical significance of Adwa

2. The socio-economic order

Mode of surplus appropriation

Trade

Concessions

Modern education and the birth of an intelligentsia

3. Political developments

The decade of consolidation (1896–1906)

Power struggle (1908–1930)

The problem of succession

The Iyyasu interlude

Creeping autocracy (1916–1930)

The emergence of absolutism (1930–1935)

4. The Italian Occupation 1936-1941

1. The Italo-Ethiopian war

2. Italian rule

3. The Resistance

5. From Liberation to Revolution 1941-1974

1. The international setting

The British decade

The American era

2. The socio-economic scene

Agriculture and land tenure

Trade and industry

3. Consolidation of absolutism

The emperor

The governing élite

The Revised Constitution of 1955

The apparatus of coercion

4. Opposition

Plots and conspiracies

The attempted coup d’état of 1960

Peasant rebellions

Eritrea: federation, union and separatism

The Ethiopian Student Movement

6. Revolution and its Sequel

1. Typology

2. The popular upsurge

3. The ‘creeping coup’

4. Military rule and its opponents

5. The ideological schooling of the Darg

6. Towards one-man rule

7. The end

Ethno-nationalist insurgency

Economic crisis

Global change

The final offensives

Conclusion

Glossary

Notes on transliteration

Personal names

Index