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Bahru Zewde (2001): A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855-1991.(Book Review)

Bahru Zewde (2001) A History of Modern Ethiopia 1855-1991. 2nd edn. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press. pp. xviii + 300 pp. ISBN 0821414402 12.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk).

The second edition of Bahru Zewde's A History of Modern Ethiopia provides what the first edition lacked: a chapter on the ignominious fate of the Ethiopian Revolution, its French Revolutionesque vicissitudes, and finally the drawn out collapse of Ethiopia's most autocratic regime, thereby extending the analysis from 1974 through 1991. This is a welcome addition to the book, since Zewde is well placed to view the revolution from its student ...

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