Ethiopia Photographed: Historic Photographs of the Country and its People Taken Between 1867 and 1935

Ethiopia Photographed is a unique photographic record of this mysterious and fascinating land up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings, and rulers of Ethiopia -- such as Emperor Menelik, Lej Iyasu, and Emperor Haile Selassie -- make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of the country in this period, and describes the role of photography. The rich captured images in the book bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photographic memories recorded here, grouped around the following themes: Historic Personalities; Historic Towns; Addis Ababa; Economic, Social, and Cultural Life; Innovation and Modernization; and Preparing to Resist the Impending Invasion.

Professor Richard Pankhurst is the founder and first Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Addis Ababa University, and for ten years the Librarian of Royal Asiatic Society in London.