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Show 35 introducing of the the rationalizing long enough to of paying soldiers practice authority complete a salary. Finally, of the emperor his modernization he formed a cabinet (Marcus 2002). Although efforts, he nevertheless as a way he did not live set the political and administrative tone for Haile Selassie's regime. The time after the death of Menilik in 1913 and the rise to the throne of period Haile Selassie in 1930 characterized by intense was intrigues. Menilek designated eccentric, and never classes. His rein Zewditu, who reign was time. All power appreciated was of uneventful, and name was along, Teferi a the symbol as the imperial politics than a real successor. and Jyasu imperial was court young and of the traditional Amhara years until 1916. Menilik's ruling daughter, ruler, succeeded him. Empress Zewitu's upon her death in 1930 Haile selassie succeeded her. Haile Teferi Mekonnen, Mekonnen by building support from 2.2. grandson, Jyasu, short, lasting only three was more selassie, whose his political infighting Ethiopia was served waiting as a for the regent during empress Zewidu's right time to seize the the traditional power brokers of the Shoan Under The date of his coronation Emperor Haile Selassie: as nobility. 1941-1974 negusa nagast, 2 November the culmination of this trend. imperial attained the 1930, marked Having height ambition, Hayla-Sellase stood poised to do away with the last vestige of the Zamana Masafent. Tewodros had tried and failed to establish a unitary Ethiopian state. His successors, Y ohannes and Menilik, of his had thus been forced to make varying degrees of compromise with regionalism. Iyyasu's rather approach to national integration had cost him his throne. It was to be the major historical achievement of Hayla-Sellase that he finally succeeded in realizing the unitary state of which Tewodros had dreamt. (Zewde 2001, p. 140) unorthodox One of the most distinct features of Haile selassie's was the transformation of the Ethiopian state into a highly reign of more than fifty years centralized and bureaucratized |
