Haile Selassie : : His Rise, His Fall / / Haggai Erlich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Erlich, Haggai,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 p.)

With scholars far from agreement in their opinions of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, the questions remain: Who was Haile Selassie? What was the secret of his survival across half a century—and how did he come to be a virtual exile in his own country, then murdered, the last emperor in a centuries-old dynasty? Haggai Erlich's Haile Selassie, full of fresh perspectives and insights, adds much to our understanding of the emperor. Drawing on new archival sources, as well as decades of research on Ethiopia, Erlich tells the multifaceted, sometimes tragic, story not only of a single individual, but also of modern Ethiopia both domestically and in world affairs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Map of Ethiopia in the 1960s -- Preface -- 1 A Political Icon -- 2 In Father’s Shadow -- 3 The Road to Power -- 4 The Crown -- 5 Facing Mussolini -- 6 From Refugee to Liberator -- 7 Absolutism -- 8 The Road to Loneliness -- 9 We Are Not God -- 10 Nothing New Under the Sun -- 11 Revolution -- 12 The Burial of a Donkey -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book