Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military OligarchyFirst published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh, the earliest known ancestor of the human race, to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a sincere and sensitive observer, who lived through the later historical events which he describes, and indeed played a notable role in several of them. |
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... Shewa and Gojjam. However, Ras Ali the Great, the founder of the Yeju nobility, snatched the regency from Ras Michael Seul of Tigray. His dynasty retained the guardianship of the king of kings and the governorship of Begemidir until the ...
... Shewa and Gojjam. However, Ras Ali the Great, the founder of the Yeju nobility, snatched the regency from Ras Michael Seul of Tigray. His dynasty retained the guardianship of the king of kings and the governorship of Begemidir until the ...
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... Shewa, the only remaining regional power of any consequence. In the spring of 1855, Haile Melkot king of Shewa, died of natural causes just before the opening of the battle. His army, after putting up some resistance, was defeated and Shewa ...
... Shewa, the only remaining regional power of any consequence. In the spring of 1855, Haile Melkot king of Shewa, died of natural causes just before the opening of the battle. His army, after putting up some resistance, was defeated and Shewa ...
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... Shewa. Soon after the death of Tewodros and the withdrawal of the British expeditionary force Gobeze crowned himself Tekle Giorgis, king of kings of Ethiopia in 1868. Ras Adale Tessema of Gojjam, a brother-in-law of Tekle Giorgis ...
... Shewa. Soon after the death of Tewodros and the withdrawal of the British expeditionary force Gobeze crowned himself Tekle Giorgis, king of kings of Ethiopia in 1868. Ras Adale Tessema of Gojjam, a brother-in-law of Tekle Giorgis ...
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... Shewa , he made Ras Adale , the ruler of Gojjam , king - the highest title that was exclusively enjoyed by the hereditary rulers of Shewa . — Ras Adale assumed the throne name of Teklehayimanot . He was further favoured by an addition ...
... Shewa , he made Ras Adale , the ruler of Gojjam , king - the highest title that was exclusively enjoyed by the hereditary rulers of Shewa . — Ras Adale assumed the throne name of Teklehayimanot . He was further favoured by an addition ...
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... Shewa and Menilek , on his part , mobilised his army for a final showdown with the emperor in 1878. The intervention of the Church averted a bloody war between Yohannis and his vassal . The two rivals signed the Liche Agreement in 1878 ...
... Shewa and Menilek , on his part , mobilised his army for a final showdown with the emperor in 1878. The intervention of the Church averted a bloody war between Yohannis and his vassal . The two rivals signed the Liche Agreement in 1878 ...
Contents
The Price of Modernisation | |
Notes | |
Critical Stage of the Revolution | |
Major Political Developments of the Revolution | |
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Ethiopia | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Abune Addis Ababa administrative regions Africa Aksumite Aksumite Kingdom Amharic anti-revolutionaries Armed Forces army Asmera associations cabinet campaign CELU Central Committee Chairman Mengistu Co-ordinating Committee Colonel Mengistu Commander commission congress COPWE Council of Ministers declaration defence Dejazmach delegation Democratic Dergue draft economic elected emperor EPLF EPRDF EPRP Eritrea Ethiopia Tikdem Ethiopian Government Ethiopian Herald Ethiopian Orthodox Church Ethiopian revolution execution foreign government’s Haile Selassie ibid Imperial implementation institutions issued Italian Italy king Labour land leadership London major Marxist-Leninist mass organisations Massawa MEISON Mengistu Haile Mariam Menilek military Ministry National Shengo nationalisation officers Ogaden participate Party of Ethiopia PDRE Peace Talks peasants People’s PMAC Politburo political POMOA President Prime Minister proclamation programme Provisional reform regime Revolutionary secessionists sector Shewa social socialist countries Somalia Sudan Teferri territorial Tesfaye Tewodros Tigray TPLF unity vanguard party villagisation Wollo workers Yohannis