KATRIN BROMBER is a senior researcher and research unit leader at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin and Associate Professor of African Studies at the University of Vienna. Her publications include Sport across Asia: Politics, Cultures and Identities, edited with Birgit Krawietz and Joseph Maguire (2013), and articles in The International Journal of the History of Sports, Annales d'Ethiopie, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, and Northeast African Studies.
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
Notes on Transliteration, Titles, Currency, and the Ethiopian Calendar
Introduction 1. The Emergence of Ethiopia's Modern Sports Scene (1900-1935)
2. Sports and Propaganda during the Fascist Occupation (1935-1941) 3.
Muscular Reconstruction: Urban Leisure, Institutionalised Physical
Education, and the Re-establishment of Boy Scouting (1940s-1960s) 4.
Training Leaders and Athletes: The Ethiopian YMCA (1940s-1970s) 5. Sports'
Material Infrastructure and the Production of Space (1910s-1970s) 6.
Conclusion and Outlook Bibliography Index
