Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world. This book traces the country's expansion
southward during medieval times, its resistance to Muslim invasion, and, under energetic …

Ethiopia is clearly one of the most important countries in Africa. First of all, with about 75
million people, it is the third most populous country in Africa. Second, it is very strategically …

In this eminently readable, concise history of Ethiopia, Harold Marcus surveys the evolution
of the oldest African nation from prehistory to the present. For the updated edition, Marcus …

An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern
nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over …

Bounded by Sudan to the west and north, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the southeast, and
Eritrea and Djibouti to the northeast, Ethiopia is a pivotal country in the geopolitics of the …

This study of Ethiopia's historical geography is based on Greek, Roman, Arabic and later
travellers' accounts, as well as on Ethiopian royal chronicles and other Ethiopian …

FEW AFRICAN COUNTRIES have had such a long, varied, and troubled history as Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian state originated in the Aksumite kingdom, a trading state that emerged about …

The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series is intended to provide students and
interested laypeople with up-to-date, concise, and analytical histories of many of the nations …

Historically, studies of Ethiopia, like those of other countries, tend to concentrate on events at
or near the center of political power, and devote far too little attention to other areas. The …

'History'is the story of the past, told from the perspective of the present. As the present
changes, history changes with it, because even if the past is, in one sense, entombed …