The First World War From Tripoli To Addis Ababa 1911 1924

Author : Silvia Bruzzi
Publisher : Centre français des études éthiopiennes
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9791036523786

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The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) by Silvia Bruzzi Pdf

For a long time now it has been common understanding that Africa played only a marginal role in the First World War. Its reduced theatre of operations appeared irrelevant to the strategic balance of the major powers. This volume is a contribution to the growing body of historical literature that explores the global and social history of the First World War. It questions the supposedly marginal role of Africa during the Great War with a special focus on Northeast Africa. In fact, between 1911 and 1924 a series of influential political and social upheavals took place in the vast expanse between Tripoli and Addis Ababa. The First World War was to profoundly change the local balance of power. This volume consists of fifteen chapters divided into three sections. The essays examine the social, political and operational course of the war and assess its consequences in a region straddling Africa and the Middle East. The relationship between local events and global processes is explored, together with the regional protagonists and their agency. Contrary to the myth still prevailing, the First World War did have both immediate and long-term effects on the region. This book highlights some of the significant aspects associated with it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 287587070X

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The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lex Heerma van Voss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521013224

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Petitions in Social History by Lex Heerma van Voss Pdf

This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favour or the redressment of an injustice. To be effective, a petition had to mention the request, usually a motivation and always the name or names of the petitioners. As a result, grievances of ordinary people which were not written down anywhere else are now stored safely in the archives of the authorities to which the petitions were addressed. The petitions considered in this book, which come from all over the globe, offer rich and valuable sources for social historians.

Author : Matteo Salvadore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317045458

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The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 by Matteo Salvadore Pdf

From the 14th century onward, political and religious motives led Ethiopian travelers to Mediterranean Europe. For two centuries, their ancient Christian heritage and the myth of a fabled eastern king named Prester John allowed the Ethiopians to engage the continent's secular and religious elites as peers. Meanwhile, back home the Ethiopian nobility came to welcome European visitors and at times even co-opted them by arranging mixed marriages and bestowing land rights. The protagonists of this encounter sought and discovered each other in royal palaces, monasteries, and markets throughout the Mediterranean basin, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean littoral, from Lisbon to Jerusalem and from Venice to Goa. Matteo Salvadore's narrative takes the reader on a voyage of reciprocal discovery that climaxed with the Portuguese intervention on the side of the Christian monarchy in the Ethiopian-Adali War. Thereafter, the arrival of the Jesuits at the Horn of Africa turned the mutually beneficial Ethiopian-European encounter into a bitter confrontation over the souls of Ethiopian Christians.

Author : Getachew Assefa (dir.). Alula Pankhurst
Publisher : Centre français des études éthiopiennes
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782821872349

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Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia by Getachew Assefa (dir.). Alula Pankhurst Pdf

This book presents a timely review of the relations between the formal and customary justice systems in Ethiopia, and offers recommendations for legal reform. The book provides cases studies from all the Region of Ethiopia based on field research on the working of customary dispute resolution (CDR) institutions, their mandates, compositions, procedures and processes. The cases studies also document considerable unofficial linkages with the state judicial system, and consider the advantages as well as the limitations of customary institutions with respect to national and international law. The editor's introduction reviews the history of state law and its relations with customary law, summarises the main findings by region as well as as on inter-ethnic issues, and draws conclusions about social and legal structures, principles of organization, cultural concepts and areas, and judicial processes. The introduction also addresses the questions of inclusion and exclusion on the basis of gerontocratic power, gender, age and marginalised status, and the gradual as well as remarkable recent transformations of CDR institutions. The editor's conclusion reviews the characteristics, advantages and limitations of CDR institutions. A strong case is made for greater recognition of customary systems and better alliance with state justice, while safeguarding individual and minority rights. The editors suggest that the current context of greater decentralization opens up opportunities for pratical collaboration between the systems by promoting legal pluralism and reform, thereby enhancing local level justice delivery. The editors conclude by proposing a range of options for more meaningful partnership for consideration by policy makers, the legal profession and other stakeholders. In memory of Aberra Jembere and Dinsa Lepisa. Cover: Elders at peace ceremony in Arbore, 1993.

Author : David Forgacs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052178

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Italy's Margins by David Forgacs Pdf

Five case studies show how different people and places were marginalized and socially excluded as the Italian nation-state was formed.

Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139915656

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Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature by Santanu Das Pdf

The First World War ravaged the male body on an unprecedented scale, yet fostered moments of physical intimacy and tenderness among the soldiers in the trenches. Touch, the most elusive and private of the senses, became central to war experience. War writing is haunted by experiences of physical contact: from the muddy realities of the front to the emotional intensity of trench life, to the traumatic obsession with the wounded body in nurses' memoirs. Through extensive archival and historical research, analysing previously unknown letters and diaries alongside literary writings by figures such as Owen and Brittain, Santanu Das recovers the sensuous world of the First World War trenches and hospitals. This original and evocative study alters our understanding of the period as well as of the body at war, and illuminates the perilous intimacy between sense experience, emotion and language as we try to make meaning in times of crisis.

Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030954

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Fighting the People's War by Jonathan Fennell Pdf

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Author : Vincent Hiribarren
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849044745

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A History of Borno by Vincent Hiribarren Pdf

Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.

Author : Maartje Abbenhuis,Maartje M. Abbenhuis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037601

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An Age of Neutrals by Maartje Abbenhuis,Maartje M. Abbenhuis Pdf

outside the continent. --Book Jacket.

Author : Christoph Cornelissen,Arndt Weinrich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800737273

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The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present by Christoph Cornelissen,Arndt Weinrich Pdf

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

Author : Anorthe Wetzel
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783593508627

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The Long End of the First World War by Anorthe Wetzel Pdf

This fall marks the centennial of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, the agreement that put a stop to the hostilities of World War I. But was the end of this historic conflict really as clearly defined as we think? The Long End of the First World War takes aim at the notion of a static and final ceasefire, revealing it to be the result of European narratives that ignored the truly global aftermath of the war. The contributors to this volume examine the war's effect from multiple angles, taking into account the experiences of prisoners of war, demobilized soldiers, women, and children from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and investigating the social, economic, and ecological results of the conflict. The Long End of the First World War serves as a complement to the commemorations of the Armistice we'll surely see this year, asking us to consider who and what ends up in the historical record and what ought to be rediscovered.

Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066960

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UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa Pdf

"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description

Author : Paolo Bertella Farnetti,Cecilia Dau Novelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527504141

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Images of Colonialism and Decolonisation in the Italian Media by Paolo Bertella Farnetti,Cecilia Dau Novelli Pdf

The twentieth century saw a proliferation of media discourses on colonialism and, later, decolonisation. Newspapers, periodicals, films, radio and TV broadcasts contributed to the construction of the image of the African “Other” across the colonial world. In recent years, a growing body of literature has explored the role of these media in many colonial societies. As regards the Italian context, however, although several works have been published about the links between colonial culture and national identity, none have addressed the specific role of the media and their impact on collective memory (or lack thereof). This book fills that gap, providing a review of images and themes that have surfaced and resurfaced over time. The volume is divided into two sections, each organised around an underlying theme: while the first deals with visual memory and images from the cinema, radio, television and new media, the second addresses the role of the printed press, graphic novels and comics, photography and trading cards.

Author : Santanu Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521509848

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Race, Empire and First World War Writing by Santanu Das Pdf

Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.