Author: Mansfield ParkynsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Life in Abyssinia
Author: Mansfield ParkynsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected During Three Year's Residence and Travels in that Country
Author: Mansfield ParkynsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Life in Abyssinia
Author: Mansfield ParkynsTextile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Author: Pedro MachadoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319582658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.
Hampton Institute
Author: Best Books onPublisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623760666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Compiled by Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe E. Lewis.
The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
“The” Quarterly Review
Author: Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia
Author: Donald CrummeyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252024825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Land 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.
A General Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature for Public School Libraries in Upper Canada
Author: Publisher: Department of Public Instruction for Upper Canada by Lovell & Gibson
ISBN:
Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa
Author: Richard J. ReidPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Northeast Africa has one of the richest histories in the world, and yet also one of the most violent. Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands and their escarpment and lowland peripheries, stretching between the modern Eritrean Red Sea coast and the southern and eastern borderlands of present day Ethiopia. Sudanese and Somali frontiers are also examined insofar as they can be related to ethnic, political, and religious conflict, and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region since c.1800. Reid argues that this modern warfare is not solely the product of modern political 'failure', but rather has its roots in a network of frontier zones which are both violent and creative. Such borderlands have given rise to markedly militarised political cultures which are rooted in the violence of the nineteenth century, and which in recent decades are manifest in authoritarian systems of government. Reid thus traces the history of Amhara and Tigrayan imperialisms to the nationalist and ethnic revolutions which represented the march of volatile borderlands on the hegemonic centre. He suggests a new interpretation of Ethiopian and Eritrean history, arguing that the key to understanding the region's turbulent present lies in an appreciation of the role of the armed, and politically fertile, frontier in its deeper past.