The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military Oligarchy

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Kegan Paul International, 1997 - History - 352 pages
First 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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The Reign of Emperor Tewodros II 185568
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The Reign of Emperor Yohannis IV 187289
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The Reign of Emperor Menilek II 18891913
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