The Battle of Adwa : African victory in the age of empire /
Jonas, Raymond Anthony.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 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.
Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913.
Taitu, Empress, consort of Menelik II, Negus of Ethiopia, -1918.
Adwa, Battle of, Adwa, Ethiopia, 1896.
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896.