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Emperor Haile Selassie / Bereket Habte Selassie.
- Title
- Emperor Haile Selassie / Bereket Habte Selassie.
- Author
- Bereket H. Selassie
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DT387.7 .B47 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 147 pages : illustrations, portraits; 18 cm.
- Summary
- Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie's government, tells both the story of the emperor's life and the story of modern Ethiopia. After a struggle for the throne in 1916, the young Selassie emerged first as regent and then as supreme leader of Ethiopia. Over the course of his nearly six-decade rule, the emperor abolished slavery, introduced constitutional reform, and expanded educational opportunity. The Italian invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s led to a five-year exile in England, from which he returned in time to lead his country through World War II. Selassie was also instrumental in the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963, but he fell short of the ultimate goal of a promised democracy in Ethiopia. The corruption that grew under his absolute rule, as well as his seeming indifference to the famine that gripped Ethiopia in the 1970s, led finally to his overthrow by the armed forces that he had created. Haile Selassie was an enlightened monarch in many ways, but also a man with flaws like any other. This short biography is a sensitive portrayal of Selassie as both emperor and man, by one who knew him well.
- Series Statement
- Ohio short histories of Africa
- Uniform Title
- Ohio short histories of Africa.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-141) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Leadership in the context of Ethiopian history and mythology -- Tafari : orphaned prince steeled by adversity -- Harar, Ras Makonnen, and Menelik's court -- The feud with Iassu; the plot thickens -- The 1916 coup d'état and the rise of a man of destiny -- From king to emperor : proclamation of the central elements of change -- The Italian invasion and the emperor's exile -- World War II and the return of the emperor to Ethiopia -- Postliberation developments -- Diplomacy : the American connection and nonalignment -- Turning of the tide : a shaken emperor on the horns of a dilemma -- Last days : revolution and the end of the monarchy.
- ISBN
- 9780821421277
- 0821421271
- 9780821445082 (canceled/invalid)
- 0821445081 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014029648
- OCLC
- 880966204
- SCSB-10570050
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library