Author: Sven Rubenson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9198469983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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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.
Author: Stéphane Ancel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004423869
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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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.
Author: David Larsson Heidenblad
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9198557750
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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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.
Author: Amsalu Aklilu
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Author: Bonnie Clementsson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9198469924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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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.
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
ISBN: 9780520039186
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 896
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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.
Author: Mark Fathi Massoud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108832784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Shari'a, Inshallah shows how people have used shari'a to struggle for peace, justice, and human rights in Somalia and Somaliland.
Author: Roberto Sciaky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788885335219
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : it
Pages : 221
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Author: John Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192802488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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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.
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231040839
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 991
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This is the seventh and final volume in this comprehensive guide to the history of world cultures throughout historical times.
