Jonas, Raymond Anthony.
The Battle of Adwa African victory in the age of empire / [electronic resource] : Raymond Jonas. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - x, 413 p. : ill., maps.
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 -- 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913.
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, d. 1918.
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
Italy--Foreign relations--Ethiopia.
Ethiopia--Foreign relations--Italy.
Electronic books.
DT387.3 / .J67 2011eb
963/.043
The Battle of Adwa African victory in the age of empire / [electronic resource] : Raymond Jonas. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - x, 413 p. : ill., maps.
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 -- 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913.
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, d. 1918.
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
Italy--Foreign relations--Ethiopia.
Ethiopia--Foreign relations--Italy.
Electronic books.
DT387.3 / .J67 2011eb
963/.043