Emperor Haile Selassie / Bereket Habte Selassie.
Series: Ohio short histories of AfricaPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014Description: 147 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780821421277 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780821445082 (pdf)
- 963.055092 23
- DT387.7 .B47 2014
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| DT381 .M33 1994 A history of Ethiopia / | DT381 .M86 2002 Ethiopia, the unknown land : a cultural and historical guide / | DT382.5 .E3 E74 2002 The cross and the river : Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile / | DT387.7 .B47 2014 Emperor Haile Selassie / | DT387.7 .H2513 1976 My life and Ethiopia's progress, 1892-1937 : the autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie I / | DT388 .U53 2015 Understanding contemporary Ethiopia / | DT403 .N55 2013 The history of Somalia / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-141) and index.
Leadership in the context of Ethiopian history and mythology -- Tafari : orphaned prince steeled by adversity -- Harar, Ras Makonnen, and Menelik's court -- The feud with Iassu; the plot thickens -- The 1916 coup d'eÌtat and the rise of a man of destiny -- From king to emperor : proclamation of the central elements of change -- The Italian invasion and the emperor's exile -- World War II and the return of the emperor to Ethiopia -- Postliberation developments -- Diplomacy : the American connection and nonalignment -- Turning of the tide : a shaken emperor on the horns of a dilemma -- Last days : revolution and the end of the monarchy.