A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855–1991. Bahru Zewde

      

       EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES

       Revealing Prophets

      Edited by DAVID M. ANDERSON & DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON

       Swahili Origins

      JAMES DE VERE ALLEN

       Being Maasai

      Edited by THOMAS SPEAR & RICHARD WALLER

       Jua Kali Kenya

      KENNETH KING

       Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya

      BRUCE BERMAN

       Unhappy Valley

      Book One: State & Class

      Book Two: Violence & Ethnicity

      BRUCE BERMAN & JOHN LONSDALE

       Mau Mau from Below

      GREET KERSHAW

       The Mau Mau War in Perspective

      FRANK FUREDI

       Squatters & the Roots of Mau Mau 1905–63

      TABITHA KANOGO

       Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau 1945–53

      DAVID W. THROUP

       Multi-Party Politics in Kenya

      DAVID W. THROUP & CHARLES HORNSBY

       Decolonization & Independence in Kenya 1940–93

      Edited by B.A. OGOT & WILLIAM R. OCHIENG’

       Penetration & Protest in Tanzania

      ISARIA N. KIMAMBO

       Custodians of the Land

      Edited by GREGORY MADDOX, JAMES L. GIBLIN & ISARIA N. KIMAMBO

       Education in the Development of Tanzania 1919–1990

      LENE BUCHERT

       The Second Economy in Tanzania

      T.L. MALIYAMKONO & M.S.D. BAGACHWA

       Ecology Control & Economic Development in East African History

      HELGE KJEKSHUS

       Siaya

      DAVID WILLIAM COHEN & E.S. ATIENO ODHIAMBO

       Uganda Now

       Changing Uganda

       Developing Uganda

       From Chaos to Order

       Religion & Politics in East Africa

      Edited by HOLGER BERNT HANSEN & MICHAEL TWADDLE

       Kakungulu & the Creation of Uganda 1868-1928

      MICHAEL TWADDLE

       Controlling Anger

      SUZETTE HEALD

       Kampala Women Getting By

      SANDRA WALLMAN

       Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar

      ABDUL SHERIFF

       Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule

      Edited by ABDUL SHERIFF & ED FERGUSON

       The History & Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town

      Edited by ABDUL SHERIFF

       East African Expressions of Christianity

      Edited by THOMAS SPEAR & ISARIA N. KIMAMBO

       The Poor Are Not Us

      Edited by DAVID M. ANDERSON & VIGDIS BROCH-DUE

       Alice Lakwena & the Holy Spirits

      HEIKE BEHREND

       Empire State-Building

      JOANNA LEWIS

       Eroding the Commons

      DAVID ANDERSON

       Pastimes & Politics

      LAURA FAIR

       Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda

      RICHARD REID

       Potent Brews

      JUSTIN WILLIS

       A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855–1991

      Second edition

      BAHRU ZEWDE

       Ethnicity & Conflict in the Horn of Africa

      Edited by KATSUYOSHI FUKUI & JOHN MARKAKIS

       Conflict, Age & Power in North East Africa

      Edited by EISEI KURIMOTO & SIMON SIMONSE

       Property Rights & Political Development in Ethiopia & Eritrea

      SANDRA FULLERTON JOIREMAN

       Revolution & Religion in Ethiopia

      ØYVIND M. EIDE

       Brothers at War

      TEKESTE NEGASH & KJETIL TRONVOLL

       From Guerrillas to Government

      DAVID POOL

       Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia

      BAHRU ZEWDE

       Remapping Ethiopia

      Edited by W. JAMES, D. DONHAM, E. KURIMOTO & A. TRIULZI

       Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia

      Edited by DONALD D. DONHAM & WENDY JAMES

       A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855–1991

       A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855–1991

      SECOND EDITION

      Bahru Zewde

       Professor of History

       Addis Ababa University

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      © Bahru Zewde 1991 and 2001

      First published 1991

      Second impression 1993

      Second