Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A foundation for learning Ethiopian history

I found the book well-written and well-organized according to significant changes in Ethiopia's development. Economics, as well as politics, ethnology and technology are used to explain events and their significance. One thing that did annoy me is the fact that historic maps are all located together in the back, rather than in the sections in which they are relevent. The use of some of the Ethiopian titles of nobility is also confusing, when European equivalents would have done just as well.Not a casual read by any means, but a serious student of African history could do much worse than Marcus' book.