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Tewodros as modernizer
2. A new approach to unification
3. Intensification of the external challenge
Gundat and Gura: victory without peace
5. The creation of the modern Ethiopian empire-state
The process of expansion
The birth of a capital
Crisis in the socio-economic order: the ‘Great Ethiopian Famine’, 1888–1892
6. Resolution of the external challenge
The campaign of Adwa
3. From Adwa to Maychaw 1896-1935
1. The historical significance of Adwa
2. The socio-economic order
Mode of surplus appropriation
Trade
Concessions
Modern education and the birth of an intelligentsia
3. Political developments
The decade of consolidation (1896–1906)
Power struggle (1908–1930)
The problem of succession
The Iyyasu interlude
Creeping autocracy (1916–1930)
The emergence of absolutism (1930–1935)
4. The Italian Occupation 1936-1941
2. Italian rule
3. The Resistance
5. From Liberation to Revolution 1941-1974
1. The international setting
The British decade
The American era
2. The socio-economic scene
Agriculture and land tenure
Trade and industry
3. Consolidation of absolutism
The emperor
The governing élite
The Revised Constitution of 1955
The apparatus of coercion
4. Opposition
Plots and conspiracies
The attempted coup d’état of 1960
Peasant rebellions
Eritrea: federation, union and separatism
The Ethiopian Student Movement
2. The popular upsurge
3. The ‘creeping coup’
4. Military rule and its opponents
5. The ideological schooling of the Darg
6. Towards one-man rule
7. The end
Ethno-nationalist insurgency
Economic crisis
Global change
The final offensives
Illustrations
Cover: A traditional painting depicting the Battle of Anchem
