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The book centers on the untold history of the Emperor Menelik's expansionary wars of conquests of the mid-nineteenth century and an early twentieth century and incorporation of various southern Ethiopian peoples which eventually resulted in the formation of the modern Ethiopian state. It also discusses the untold history of the pre-conquest socio-cultural and historical status of the Southern Ethiopian peoples and post-conquest legacies. Moreover, the book uniquely highlights the dominant legacy of the Shewa-Amhara ruling class in Ethiopian state, which R. H. K. Darkwah (1975) called "the Shewanization of the empire." To date there is no comprehensive work in Eth"