What are some good books on Ethiopian history and/or culture?

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>>363256
Want to learn about Ethiopian history.

>>363260
AND

>>363266
Want to learn about Ethiopian history.

>>363250
"The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire"

>>363268
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT

Bumping for interest, I'm only just now learning about Ethiopia's particularly strong holdout as an African power.

>>363276
Somali history might also be acceptable.

>>363289
SPEAKING OF SOMALIS,

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>>363272
Thank you

>>363250
Unfortunately, there are very few decent academic works on Ethiopian culture and history. The decent anthropological works are all written in Amharic with scarcely any proper Western material. Western academia tend to focus primarily on the linguistic background of the region, especially Semitic languages.

Your best bet is to just go on Amazon and look at whatever you can find. There's no real standard works in the field. Haile Selassie's autobiography isn't that great and really as arrogant and vain as you might expect.

You could consider checking out ''The Fate of Africa'' by Martin Meredith. Though this is a very condensed summary of modern African history, its general themes might interest you.

>>363321
WE

>>363342
That's a bummer.

>>363250
A History of Modern Ethiopia by Zewde is alright

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>>363250
>What are some good books on Ethiopian history and/or culture?
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>>363353
WUZ

>>363527
KINGZ

>>363342

Second this. Very good book.

The Zanzibar Chest is also good. Written by a Reuters stringer embedded with the Tigrayan rebels who overthrew colonel Mengistu's communist dictatorship in '91. He was also in Somalia during the blackhawk down bullshit as well as Rwanda when the hutus went apeshit. Not exactly a history book but good stories nonetheless.

>>363529
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>>363250
Here's various articles with a number of books to choose from. use bookzz.org to look them up for free

ethiopia
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0139.xml?rskey=Mt4HN1&result=1&q=ethiopia#firstMatch

Precolonial Warfare in Africa (check the last book on list)
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0149.xml?rskey=Mt4HN1&result=2&q=ethiopia#firstMatch

Oromo people (largest ethnic group in ethiopia. i spot a lot of general works in this link too)
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0038.xml?rskey=Mt4HN1&result=5&q=ethiopia#firstMatch

Northeastern African States, c. 1000 BCE-1800 CE (two books on medieval ethiopian history)
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0036.xml?rskey=Mt4HN1&result=9&q=ethiopia#firstMatch