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Author: Mordechai Abir
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the religious and political evolution of Ethiopia that led to the foundation of the Christian dynastic rule now governing the country.
Author: Donald Crummey
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780252024825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLand and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia offers an original perspective on how the rulers of Ethiopia - one of the great subcenters of agricultural innovation and development - used land to support their dominion. Crummey draws on all the surviving documents pertaining to the holding and granting of agricultural land in the Ethiopian highlands from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. By examining how social relations affected the conditions for economic production and how people of power drew on the wealth created by society's basic producers, he provides new insight into how ordinary farming and herding folk were incorporated into and affected by the institutions that ruled them.
Author: Jason Porath
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 0062405381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make history. Good thing these women are far from well behaved . . . Illustrated in a contemporary animation style, Rejected Princesses turns the ubiquitous "pretty pink princess" stereotype portrayed in movies, and on endless toys, books, and tutus on its head, paying homage instead to an awesome collection of strong, fierce, and yes, sometimes weird, women: warrior queens, soldiers, villains, spies, revolutionaries, and more who refused to behave and meekly accept their place. An entertaining mix of biography, imagery, and humor written in a fresh, young, and riotous voice, this thoroughly researched exploration salutes these awesome women drawn from both historical and fantastical realms, including real life, literature, mythology, and folklore. Each profile features an eye-catching image of both heroic and villainous women in command from across history and around the world, from a princess-cum-pirate in fifth century Denmark, to a rebel preacher in 1630s Boston, to a bloodthirsty Hungarian countess, and a former prostitute who commanded a fleet of more than 70,000 men on China’s seas.
Author: Dervla Murphy
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906011673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe real acheivement of Dervla's trip across Ethiopia was not surviving three armed robberies or a mountainous thousand-mile trail, but rather her growing affection for and understanding of another race.
Author: John G. Jackson
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Published: 1985-02
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780933121140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Randy J. Sparks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674043893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1767, two “princes” of a ruling family in the port of Old Calabar, on the slave coast of Africa, were ambushed and captured by English slavers. The princes, Little Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin Robin John, were themselves slave traders who were betrayed by African competitors—and so began their own extraordinary odyssey of enslavement. Their story, written in their own hand, survives as a rare firsthand account of the Atlantic slave experience. Randy J. Sparks made the remarkable discovery of the princes’ correspondence and has managed to reconstruct their adventures from it. They were transported from the coast of Africa to Dominica, where they were sold to a French physician. By employing their considerable language and interpersonal skills, they cleverly negotiated several escapes that took them from the Caribbean to Virginia, and to England, but always ended in their being enslaved again. Finally, in England, they sued for, and remarkably won, their freedom. Eventually, they found their way back to Old Calabar and, evidence suggests, resumed their business of slave trading. The Two Princes of Calabar offers a rare glimpse into the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and slave trade from an African perspective. It brings us into the trading communities along the coast of Africa and follows the regular movement of goods, people, and ideas across and around the Atlantic. It is an extraordinary tale of slaves’ relentless quest for freedom and their important role in the creation of the modern Atlantic World.
Author: Mordechai Abir
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1136280979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1980. An important waterway for international trade, the Red Sea is about 2000 kms. long and generally between 200-300 kms. wide. In its southern part the Arabian peninsula approaches the Horn of Africa to a distance of about 25 kms. This book is partly the outcome of research for the chapter called 'Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa' (from the middle of the sixteenth century until the middle of the eighteenth century), published in the fourth volume of the Cambridge History of Africa. The extensive research conducted for several summers between 1967 and 1971 for a forty-page chapter resulted in substantial material in order to create this volume.
Author: Sven Rubenson
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sven Rubenson
Publisher: Tsehai Publishers
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780972317276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK?What people say about this book ?Sven Rubenson?s The Survival of Ethiopian Independence, does considerably advance our knowledge. For foreign relations in the first three quarters of the 19th century, which are exhaustively treated in the bulk of the book (P.29-334), it will probably prove nearly definitive. It certainly will become the principle reference work for a very long time to come and is marvelously indexed and abundantly supplied with good maps. Above all the author has set a high standard for all future studies by meticulously removing the European veneer from documents and their interpretation. The International Journal of African Historical StudiesThe questions it raises about the material and psychological pre-conditions for colonial conquest represent a crucial contribution to African history as a whole. West Africa"Sven Rubenson?s The Survival of Ethiopian Independence still remains the most meticulously written analysis of Ethiopian history. No other scholarly work that tries to holistically cover this ancient country comes close to the detail, authority and assiduous research that Sven Rubenson has put into the book. And at this time, when Ethiopian unity and territorial integrity is under constant assault, Tsehai Publishers has made a timely decision to reissue a work that valiantly celebrates the Ethiopian peoples? stubborn resistant to colonialism and the almost mystical martyrdom of its sons and daughters to keep it independent during the last several hundred years."Dr. Paulos Milkias Professor Sven Rubenson?s ?The Survival of Ethiopian Independence? exposes the colonialists? duplicity towards Ethiopia and shows the Ethiopians? unified resistance to the assault on their country?s territorial integrity. Prof. Getachew Haile
Author: Verena Krebs
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-17
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 3030649342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
