Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers

An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state.

Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfo...