The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) write by Silvia Bruzzi. This book was released on 2018-10-08. The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924)
The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) write by . This book was released on . The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555
The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 write by Matteo Salvadore. This book was released on 2016-06-17. The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia
Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia write by Getachew Assefa (dir.). Alula Pankhurst. This book was released on 2016-07-28. Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Petitions in Social History
Petitions in Social History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Petitions in Social History write by Lex Heerma van Voss. This book was released on 2002-01-07. Petitions in Social History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
