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Ethiopia -- History -- 1490-1889

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• Ethiopia -- History

• Magdala, Battle of, Āmba Maryam, Ethiopia, 1868

• Futūḥ Al-Ḥabashah: or, The Conquest of Abyssinia ("Part I", only part published of this edition, in Arabic with English commentary; London: Williams and Norgate, 1894), by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn 'Abd al-Qādir 'Arabfaqīh, ed. by S. Arthur Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia, With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People, by Henry Jules Blanc (Gutenberg text)

• Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa (New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Henry M. Stanley, illust. by Melton Prior (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Confederate Soldier in Egypt (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, c1884), by William Wing Loring
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Royal Chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (in Ethiopic and English; Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1922), ed. by H. Weld Blundell
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; possibly different edition, without preface and little front matter
• A Voyage to Abyssinia, by Jerónimo Lobo, ed. by Henry Morley, trans. by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)
• Moslem Egypt and Christian Abyssinia: or, Military Service Under the Khedive, in His Provinces and Beyond their Borders, as Experienced by the American Staff (New York: Atkin and Prout, printers, 1880), by William McEntyre Dye (page images at wdl.org)

• Ethiopia (1936), by United Aid for Ethiopia (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ethiopia (1936), by United Aid for Ethiopia (multiple formats at archive.org)
• War on Ethiopia: An Interview With Tecle Hawariate, Ethiopian Ambassador (New York: Communist Party, Harlem Section, ca. 1936), by Takla Hawaryat (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Doctor Without a Country (New York et al.:: F. H. Revell Co., c1939), by Thomas A. Lambie, contrib. by Howard A. Kelly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Friends of Ethiopia in America (1935), by Friends of Ethiopia in America, contrib. by Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I, Azaz Wahrnek Martin, and Takla Hawaryat (multiple formats with reshuffled pages at archive.org)

• Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Jon Woodson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Traditions de Tsazzega et Hazzega (reprint of 3 articles in Archives d'Etudes Orientales, in French and Tigrinya, 1912-1915), ed. by Johannes Kolmodin
  • all parts; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Part 3 (annales et documents): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Church-History of Ethiopia: Wherein, Among Other Things, the Two Great Splendid Roman Missions Into That Empire Are Placed in Their True Light (London: Printed for Ri. Chiswell, 1696), by Michael Geddes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1993), by Teshome G. Wagaw (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1989), by Kay Kaufman Shelemay (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

• The Beginnings of Printing in Abyssinia (extract from The Library; 1930), by S. Gaselee (multiple formats at archive.org)