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Table of Contents:

• Prehistory and geography
• Punt, pharaohs and ptolemies, the Aksumite Kingdom, and the coming of Christianity
• The Zagwé Dynasty, Lalibala churches, and the Solomonic "restoration'
• Life in the Middle Ages: contacts with Muslim neighbours and far-off Christians
• Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, Oromo migration, and Ottoman seizure of Massawa
• The move of capital north-west and the Roman Catholic interlude
• The rise and fall of Gondar
• The early nineteenth century and the advent of Téwodros II
• Yohannes, Menilek and the European powers
• Beginnings of modernization: meniled, Iyasu, Zawditu and Haile Sellassie
• Invasion, occupation and liberation
• Restoration and revolution.

Author/Creator:

Pankhurst, Richard

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Ethiopians [by Pankhurst, R.]

Related Series:

Peoples of Africa

Subjects:

Ethnology — Ethiopia

Ethiopia — History

Ethnology

Ethiopia

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-286) and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

DT381 .P39 1998

ISBNs:

0631184686

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

98009224

OCLC Numbers:

60155555
38239234 [Invalid]