TY - BOOK ID - 77886461 TI - The Battle of Adwa PY - 2011 SN - 0674062795 9780674062795 9780674052741 0674052749 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896. KW - Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896. KW - Abyssino-Italian War, 1895-1896 KW - Ethiopian-Italian War, 1895-1896 KW - Adowa, Battle of, 1896 KW - Adua, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896 KW - Aduwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896 KW - Adwa (Ethiopia), Battle of, 1896 KW - Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896 KW - Campaigns KW - Menelik KW - Taitu, KW - Betul Hayle Maryam, Taytu, KW - Tayetu, KW - Tayitu, KW - Taytu Betul Hayle Maryam, KW - Taytu, KW - Menilek KW - Minīlik KW - Italy KW - Ethiopia KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886461 AB - In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa.Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold. ER -