Haile Selassie : his rise, his fall / Haggai Erlich.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Title Page; copyright page; Contents; Map of Ethiopia in the 1960s; Preface; Ethiopian Names and Titles; Haile Selassie in his prime, mid-1950s; Ch1- A Political Icon; Notes; Ch2- In Father's Shadow; The Admired Father; Harar; Victorious Ethiopia; Jerusalem and Europe; Father's Legacy; Ras Makonnen and his son Tafari, probably 1903; Notes; Ch3- The Road to Power; Menelik's Heir-Lij Iyasu; Tafari and Emperor Menelik, probably 1906; Back in Harar; A Friend for Life; Iyasu and the Gamble on Islam; The Deposition of Iyasu; The End of the Somali Mawla; Notes; Ch4- The Crown; The Old Guard

First Empress Since the Queen of ShebaA Prince and a Modernizer; A Long Trip to Europe; France-the Mother of Modernization; Italy-Mussolini Still Young; Britain-Discord on the Nile; "Taming" the Ethiopians; Egypt and Jerusalem; Negus Tafari; Emperor, King of Kings, Lion of Judah; The imperial family after the coronation; Notes; Ch5- Facing Mussolini; The Young Ethiopians; A Modern Constitution; The Christian King; The British, the Nile, and Mussolini; Back to Center Stage-Tigray; Italy and "Political Tigrinya"; The Death of a Princess; The Traitor and Mussolini's Strategy

Mussolini Drives EscalationThe Ethiopian Defeat; On the eve of the Maichaw defeat, March 1936; Escape; Notes; Ch6- From Refugee to Liberator; Waterloo Station-No Flags; "It is us today. It will be you tomorrow."; On the Sidelines; Back to History; Gideon Force; Haile Selassie-the Nationalist Movement; Victory Parade; May 1941 on the stairs of Genet Lul Palace; Regaining Tigray; Notes; Ch7- Absolutism; British Help; The Hanging of Belay; Tigray-the "Woyane"; Restraining Political Islam; From the British to the Americans; Big Ego, Hard Work; "Elect of God"; Holy by Constitution; The Reformer

Opening the Parliament, 1955Annexation of Eritrea; Notes; Ch8- The Road to Loneliness; In the United States:"And He Shall Reign Forever and Ever"; With the British Lion, Again; The Changing World-Bandung; Nasser-Smiling and Disconnecting; The Lion of Judah and Israel; The Rebels of 1960; The Coup and Its Suppression; The hanging of Colonel Warqneh Gabayhu; Loneliness; Notes; Ch9- We Are Not God; No One Would Dare; The Nasserite Threat; Turning to Africa; Africa Comes to Addis Ababa-the Organization of African Unity; Africa's Eldest Statesman

Celebrating the establishment of the Organization for African Unity, 1963Ethiopia Lags Behind; Global Standing and Personal Cult; "A Man Who Has Made Us What We Are Today"; Notes; Ch10- Nothing New Under the Sun; Israel and the Six-Day Salvation; American Negligence; New Challenges in the Region; With young army officers, 1964.; Searching for Moderates; A New Challenge at Home: The Students; All Is Quiet at the Top; "Alas, the Wise Man Dies-Just Like the Fool" (Ecclesiastes 2:16); "How Old Could He Be?"; Notes; Ch11- Revolution; Golda Would Not Enable a Nobel Prize; Nixon Refuses to Rearm

With scholars far from agreement in their opinions of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, the questions remain: Who was Haile Selassie? What was the secret of his survival across half a century--and how did he come to be a virtual exile in his own country, then murdered, the last emperor in a centuries-old dynasty? Haggai Erlich's Haile Selassie, full of fresh perspectives and insights, adds much to our understanding of the emperor. Drawing on new archival sources, as well as decades of research on Ethiopia, Erlich tells the multifaceted, sometimes tragic, story not only of a single individual, but als.

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