The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire / / Raymond Jonas.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 413 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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
- Baratieri chooses
- Armies meet
- The center crumbles
- pt. 3. Aftermaths
- Despair, panic, pursuit
- The harvest
- The long march
- Sons and lovers and accidental anthropologists
- Menelik abroad
- Reckonings
- Rescues
- Passings.