Table of Contents

Chapter 1 CHAPTER I Economic and Political Background; Chapter 2 Chapter II Ethiopia's Foreign Relations to 1500; Chapter 3 CHAPTER III Government, Administration, Army and Church to 1500; Chapter 4 CHAPTER IV The Rise of the Muslim Kingdom of Ethiopia in the Sixteenth Century — Power Politics; Chapter 5 CHAPTER V The Revival of the Solomonic Monarchy and the Decline of Muslim Power in the Horn; Chapter 6 CHAPTER VI Trade and Power Politics in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 7 CHAPTER VII The Rise of Galla Power in the Horn; Chapter 8 CHAPTER VIII A Period of Transition; Chapter 9 CHAPTER IX The Reign of Susinyos — A Seventeenth Century Attempt at Westernisation; Chapter 10 CHAPTER X Imposed Conversion and the Triumph of the National Church Bibliography; Conclusion Index;