Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880–1884
Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880–1884

Author: Sven Rubenson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 9198469983

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Colonial powers and Ethiopian frontiers 1880–1884 is the fourth volume of Acta Aethiopica, a series that presents original Ethiopian documents of nineteenth-century Ethiopian history with English translations and scholarly notes. The documents have been collected from dozens of archives in Africa and Europe to recover and present the Ethiopian voice in the history of Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. The present book, the first Acta Aethiopica volume to appear from Lund University Press, deals with how Ethiopian rulers related to colonial powers in their attempts to open Ethiopia for trade and technological development while preserving the integrity and independence of their country. In addition to the correspondence and treatises with the rulers and representatives of Italy, Egypt and Great Britain, the volume also presents letters dealing with ecclesiastical issues, including the Ethiopian community in Jerusalem.

The Monk on the Roof
The Monk on the Roof

Author: Stéphane Ancel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9004423869

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Centred on the changing fortunes of the Ethiopian Christian community in Jerusalem around 1900, this book takes the reader to the heart of the political, diplomatic and religious affairs that exercised the city’s multinational population.

African History: A Very Short Introduction
African History: A Very Short Introduction

Author: John Parker

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-03-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0192802488

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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940
Incest in Sweden, 1680–1940

Author: Bonnie Clementsson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 9198469924

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In early modern Sweden, if a man and his deceased wife's sister were found guilty of engaging in sexual intercourse they would be sentenced to death by beheading. Today the same relationship is not even illegal. Covering the period 1680–1940, this book analyses both incest crimes and applications for dispensation to marry, revealing the norms underpinning Swedish society’s shifting attitudes to incestuous relations and comparing them with developments in other European countries. It demonstrates that, even though the debate on incest has been dominated by religious, moral and – in due course – medical notions, the values that actually determined the outcome of incest cases were frequently of quite a different character.

The environmental turn in postwar Sweden
The environmental turn in postwar Sweden

Author: David Larsson Heidenblad

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 9198557750

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The Stockholm Conference of 1972 drew the world’s attention to the global environmental crisis, but for people in Sweden the threat was nothing new. Anyone who read the papers or watched the television news was already familiar with the issues. Five years early, in the summer of 1967, the situation was very different. So what happened in between? This book explores the ‘environmental turn’ that took place in Sweden in the late-1960s. This radical change, the realisation that human beings were in the process of destroying their own environment, had major and far-reaching consequences. What was it that opened people’s eyes to the crisis? When did it happen? Who set the ball rolling? These are some of the questions the book addresses, shedding new light on the history of environmentalism.

History of Humanity
History of Humanity

Author: UNESCO

Publisher: UNESCO Publishing

Published: 2008-12-31

Total Pages: 991

ISBN-13: 9231040839

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This is the seventh and final volume in this comprehensive guide to the history of world cultures throughout historical times.

Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935
Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935

Author: Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa

Publisher: London : Heinemann ; Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A. : University of California Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 9780520039186

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"Africa was partitioned and colonized by the Europeans. After military conquest came the commercial exploitation of the wealth of Africa. The intensity of resistance to colonization varied from one region to another, but a new economic and social system linked with colonization was put in place, bringing about unprecedented demographic and political change."--Publisher's description.