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Horn of Africa (HSTAFM 288 / NEAR E 288): Ethiopia
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- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America: Ethiopian Americans
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- Multicultural America: Ethiopian Immigrants
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Ethiopia: Recommended Books
These are recommended books for those studying Ethiopia. All are available at the UW Libraries either in print or online. Some may be available at local public libraries.For a more comprehensive list of books see the Horn of Africa: A Bibliography.
- Prunier, Gerard and Ficquet, E´loi. Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia. Hurst & Company, 2015.
- Giorgis, Elizabeth W. Modernist Art in Ethiopia. Ohio University Press, 2019.
- Thomas, Michael W., et al. Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa. Michigan State University Press, 2018.
- Abtew, Wossenu, and Dessu, Shimelis Behailu. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. Springer, 2019.
- Alemayehu, Elias Yitbarek and Stark, Laura. The Transformation of Addis Ababa: A Multiform African City. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
- Cramer, Christopher, et al. The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Ege, Svein. Land Tenure Security: State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia. James Currey, 2019.
- Koehler, Jeff. Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup. Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Tesfaye, Aaron. China in Ethiopia: The Long-Term Perspective. State University of New York Press, 2020.
- Campbell, Ian. The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Huber, Marie. Developing Heritage - Developing Countries: Ethiopian Nation-Building and the Origins of UNESCO World Heritage, 1960-1980. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.
- Munro-Hay, S. C. Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
- Yates, Brian J. The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913. University of Rochester Press, 2020.
- Epple, Susanne, and Getachew Assefa. Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia: Actors, Challenges and Solutions. Transcript Verlag, 2020.
- Adera, Taddesse., et al. Silence Is Not Golden: A Critical Anthology of Ethiopian Literature. Red Sea Press, 1995.
- Mengiste, Maaza. Addis Ababa Noir. Akashic Books, 2020.
- Mengiste, Maaza. Beneath the Lion's Gaze : a Novel. W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
- Verghese, A. Cutting for Stone: A Novel. Vintage Books, 2010.
- Hammond, Jenny. Fire from the Ashes: A Chronicle of the Revolution in Tigray, Ethiopia, 1975-1991. Red Sea Press, 1999.
- Tareke, Gebru. The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa. Yale University Press, 2009.
- Tiruneh, Andargachew. The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-1987: A Transformation from an Aristocratic to a Totalitarian Autocracy. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- Ben-Ezer, Gadi. The Ethiopian Jewish Exodus Narratives of the Migration Journey to Israel 1977-1985. Routledge, 2002.
- Binns, John. The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History. I.B. Tauris, 2017.
- Fitzgerald, Mary Anne, et al. Ethiopia: The Living Churches of an Ancient Kingdom. The American University in Cairo Press, 2017.
- Baxter, P. T. W., et al. Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. Red Sea Press, 1996.
- Pankhurst, Helen. Gender, Development, and Identity: An Ethiopian Study. Zed Books, 1992.
- Peveri, Valentina. The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia: An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger. The University of Arizona Press, 2020.
- Smith, Lahra. Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Chait, Sandra M. Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis In the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, 2011.
- Getahun, Solomon Addis. The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000 Patterns of Migration, Survival, and Adjustment. LFB Scholarly Pub., 2007.
- Matsuoka, Atsuko Karin, and Sorenson, John. Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora. University of Toronto Press, 2001.