The 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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Page 41
... Haile Selassie's power had disappeared from politics by natural attrition and Italy's scorched - earth policy which virtually destroyed the nobility as well as its power - base . After the restoration of independence , those nobles and ...
... Haile Selassie's power had disappeared from politics by natural attrition and Italy's scorched - earth policy which virtually destroyed the nobility as well as its power - base . After the restoration of independence , those nobles and ...
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... Haile Selassie's government had never pursued ethnocentrism as a policy of the state . Emperor Haile Selassie , declaring the policy of the state in respect to ethnicity and race relations , stated : ' Above all , Ethiopia is dedicated ...
... Haile Selassie's government had never pursued ethnocentrism as a policy of the state . Emperor Haile Selassie , declaring the policy of the state in respect to ethnicity and race relations , stated : ' Above all , Ethiopia is dedicated ...
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... Haile Selassie wrote : ' American devotion to Ethiopia stemmed not from a perceived military need , but from a practical geopolitics , whereas Ethiopia courted the United States as a hedge against invasion , incursion and insolvency '51 ...
... Haile Selassie wrote : ' American devotion to Ethiopia stemmed not from a perceived military need , but from a practical geopolitics , whereas Ethiopia courted the United States as a hedge against invasion , incursion and insolvency '51 ...
Contents
The Reign of Emperor Tewodros II 185568 | 6 |
The Reign of Emperor Yohannis IV 187289 | 21 |
The Reign of Emperor Menilek II 18891913 | 27 |
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