A HISTORY OF MODERN ETHIOPIA 1855-1991. ZEWDE, Bahru. Addis Ababa University Press. 2005.

ZEWDE, Bahru. Addis Ababa University Press. Ethiopia, 2005, Octavo mayor, 0.5Kg.. Rústica. Portada, 300 p. - Ilustraciones en blanco y negro intercaladas en el texto. - El libro tiene las cubiertas deslucidas y tiene los cortes un poco manchados. - Bahru Zewde, one of present-day Ethiopia's leading historians, must be thanked for producing the first serious history of his country from the coronation of the reforming emperor Tewodros in 1855 to the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974. The work encompasses the lives of Ethiopia's four last, and most important, monarchs: Tewodros, Yohannes, Menilek and Hayla Sellase, whose reigns, as the author presents them, form an historical continuum. The text is valuable in that it provides an historical overview of virtually the entire area of present-day Ethiopia, with sections on the south of the country, largely ignored by previous historians, as well as on the better-documented Semitic north. ... The book, though less than 250 pages in length, is packed with information not readily available elsewhere, and contains valuable new historical insights. There are moreover interesting discussions of how events in one part of the region influenced the situation in others...there are also interesting sections on such topics as Hayla Sellase's ideas of government. ...The author does not ignore the more positive features of the occupation. ... Bahru's work is the first history of modern Ethiopia to be written by an Ethiopian, and thus provides a new perspective. Though later imprisoned for several years by Ethiopia's post-imperial regime he does not see the Hayla Sellase era, through which he lived as a student, with rosy spectacles. Fatigado. 12 Euros. .