Republicans on the throne : a personal account of Ethiopia's modernization and painful quest for democracy / Tekalign Gedamu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tekalign Gedamu.

Series:

New horizons in Ethiopian studies.

New horizons in Ethiopian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tekalign Gedamu.

Bankers--Ethiopia--Biography.

Bankers.

Banks and banking.

History.

Ethiopia--History--20th century.

Ethiopia.

Banks and banking--Ethiopia.

Genre:

History.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

505 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Tsehai Publishers & Distributors, [2011]

Contents:

Part 1. The twilight years of monarchy. A glimpse of feudal life

Being groomed for a post feudal world

Early career and a surprise coup d'état

More on the 1960 coup d'état

In the service of the Imperial Ethiopian Government: the initial years

In the service of the Imperial Ethiopian Government: the succeeding three years

part 2. Fin d'epoque. The monarchy on the eve

The Interregnum: the opening four and a half months of Endalkatchew Makonnen's premiership

The Interregnum: the closing forty-one days of Michael Imru's premiership

part 3. Transition to an uncertain republic. The contrived revolution

March towards Bloody Saturday

The initial policy orientations of the military

The parting of ways

part 4. Exile years and the birth of the Second Republic. The African Development Bank

Mengistu falls and a Second Republic takes shape

The Bank of Abyssinia

Retirement: working with charities

Retirement: a disagreeable but not unexpected episode

part 5. Whither Ethiopia? Footprints of history

The shape of things to come

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781599070476

1599070472

OCLC:

776871073