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100 1 $aJonas, Raymond Anthony.
245 14 $aThe Battle of Adwa :$bAfrican victory in the age of empire /$cRaymond Jonas.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2011.
300 $ax, 413 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. The road to Adwa -- Courtly ambitions -- Listing toward Adwa -- Italy in Africa -- The price of liberty -- Black in service of white -- Africa in Italy -- "Something humiliating for my kingdom" -- pt. 2. The battle -- Menelik's march -- Amba Alage -- Stalled at Sauria -- Baratieri chooses -- Armies meet -- The center crumbles -- pt. 3. Aftermaths -- Despair, panic, pursuit -- The harvest -- The long march -- Sons and lovers and accidental anthropologists -- Menelik abroad -- Reckonings -- Rescues -- Passings.
650 0 $aAdwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
650 0 $aItalo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.
600 00 $aMenelik$bII,$cNegus of Ethiopia,$d1844-1913.
600 00 $aTaitu,$cEmpress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia,$dd. 1918.
651 0 $aItaly$xForeign relations$zEthiopia.
651 0 $aEthiopia$xForeign relations$zItaly.