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A History of Ethiopia Updated Edition
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by Harold G. Marcus
Sales Rank: 33780
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Cover Type: Paperback with 394 pages
Published by: University of California PressEdition: 1st Edition January 7, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0520224795
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520224797
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
From Library Journal
Marcus (history, Michigan State Univ.) has authored several books on Ethiopia, most recently Haile Selassie: The Formative Years 1892-1936 (Univ. of California Pr., 1986). This one, which was eight years in the writing, is his most ambitious because it attempts to cover the entire history of Ethiopia from prehistoric times to the fall of the Mengistu government in 1991, although all but the first eighty pages deal with Ethiopia since its reunification under Menelik in 1889. Marcus views Ethiopian history as a series of cyclical expansions from its component parts to empire and back again; he argues that the idea of the greater Ethiopian nation will always cause the state to reunify despite its current disintegration. Whether or not one agrees with his thesis, this book is such a readable and up-to-date overview of a long and complex history that it is recommended for both academic and large public libraries.
Paul H. Thomas, Hoover Inst. Lib., Stanford, Cal.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Christopher Clapham, International Journal of African Historical Studies
"[T]his is a valuable contribution to Ethiopian historiography, which provides a useful and much-needed overview of current knowledge."
Reader Reviews
I found the book well-written and well-organized according to significant changes in Ethiopia's development. Economics, as well as politics, ethnology and technology are used to explain events and their significance. One thing that did annoy me is the fact that historic maps are all located together in the back, rather than in the sections in which they are relevent. The use of some of the Ethiopian titles of nobility is also confusing, when European equivalents would have done just as well. Not a casual read by any means, but a serious student of African history could do much worse than Marcus' book.
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