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.

Bromber's book is certainly an important one for those who study Ethiopian history to their shelves,especially those who are particularly interested in debates about Ethiopian modernity, but its virtuesextend further. Theoretically and conceptually, the text offers new perspectives on the literature aboutmodernity, coloniality, urban development in Africa, sporting state formation, and regional development between the Middle East and Africa. Scholars working in any of these subfields would have much to learn from Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Transliteration, Titles, Currency, and the Ethiopian CalendarIntroduction1. 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 OutlookBibliographyIndex

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.

Bromber's book is certainly an important one for those who study Ethiopian history to their shelves,especially those who are particularly interested in debates about Ethiopian modernity, but its virtuesextend further. Theoretically and conceptually, the text offers new perspectives on the literature aboutmodernity, coloniality, urban development in Africa, sporting state formation, and regional development between the Middle East and Africa. Scholars working in any of these subfields would have much to learn from Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Transliteration, Titles, Currency, and the Ethiopian CalendarIntroduction1. 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 OutlookBibliographyIndex

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.

Bromber's book is certainly an important one for those who study Ethiopian history to their shelves,especially those who are particularly interested in debates about Ethiopian modernity, but its virtuesextend further. Theoretically and conceptually, the text offers new perspectives on the literature aboutmodernity, coloniality, urban development in Africa, sporting state formation, and regional development between the Middle East and Africa. Scholars working in any of these subfields would have much to learn from Sports and Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Transliteration, Titles, Currency, and the Ethiopian CalendarIntroduction1. 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 OutlookBibliographyIndex