Download or read book Ethiopia in Theory Revolution and Knowledge Production 1964 2016 written by Elleni Centime Zeleke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement’s afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?

Download or read book Invasion of the Ortaks Book 2 the Defeat written by Sveinn Benónýsson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Esthopians fret over the spread of the brutal Ortaks, they also face another, more ghoulish threat: creatures from the underworld, first encountered by Queen Jofrid's lieutenant and his men. The frightened armies, noblemen, and kings of Eniktronia, Montania, and Serpenia face off against the Ortaks and King Armus in a spectacular battle at Broad Valley. But their heroism is offset by their lack of experience, and the Ortaks' strategic attacks lay waste to them. A ragtag band of soldiers who escaped death at Broad Valley, led by an archer named Axel, find protection together, while Queen Maria of Montania and her daughters flee to Storm Castle. Meanwhile, Tania another part-Elven hero saves Queen Egny of Otanga. And Sir William at Crown Castle makes a stand against the Ortaks, with his few brave men.

Download or read book Invasion Of The Ortaks Book 1 The Knight written by Sveinn Benónýsson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saved in the nick of time by the battle-ready Princess Egny-the niece of Eniktronia's King Haakon-Carl travels with her through the countryside, attacking the encampments of these dark-clad invaders. While lodged at an inn for the night, enemies posing as local tavern-goers make an attempt on her life. News of the attack reaches the king, who sends Sir Klaus eastward across the outlaw-riddled Bending Pass and into the country of Antonia to learn more about the assassination plot. The novel, filled with well-wrought adventure, hosts a large cast, from the warm Asgrim to the foolhardy Gils, their back stories as attention-grabbing as the main narrative. We learn, for instance, the unsettling history of Christopher, a trader who freed two condemned slaves and joined forces with Klaus against the incoming Ortaks. Esthopians who, faced with the prospect of war with a brutal tribe and betrayal among their ranks, band together-building interest for the series' next installment.

Download or read book Invasion of the Ortaks Book 3 Rebellion written by Sveinn Benónýsson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Broad Valley has been fought and lost, and the brutal Ortaks stand victorious. But though the Esthopian forces have been defeated, they are not destroyed. As the Ortaks plunder their lands, the fragments of the defeated armies unite under the leadership of the young commander Axel, forming a rebel force against the invaders. Desperate to aid them, their queen takes on a dangerous journey to cross the Great Mountains to join them in the battle at Crown City. At the same time, the hero Big John fights his way through Ortaks and outlaws in a seemingly hopeless attempt to save Sir William from certain death. We also learn about the part-Elven Tania, about her journey from childhood to become a captain of the Elven army and about her time in the monastery in Big Canyon. Meanwhile, as the armies of the Ortaks secure their footholds in Esthopia, the forces from the Underworld grow stronger by the day.

Download or read book Invasion of the Ortaks Book 4 Brutal Force written by Sveinn Benónýsson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After crossing Bending Pass with his army, King Anton of Antonia attacks Borg Castle, not knowing his lands are being raided by the Ortaks. General Akhtar, with reinforcements from Orknia, crosses Great River, and attacks Rutan City and Crystal City with his brutal armies. Izzy tries to escape death from a pack of outlaws, while Gils fights the forces of evil on Lake Etu. At the same time, Queen Egny makes her way from Serpenia with her army, into Montania and Eniktronia, after the battle at Crown City. She is to reclaim her throne at Eniktronia Castle. The scattered army of Antonia make their stand against the Ortaks. While in Alfheim, they face the biggest threat ever to be seen from the Underworld. Tania crosses the River Of Wisdom, to meet up with the Barbarians trying to get them involved. This is the fourth book in the series: Invasion of the Ortaks!

Download or read book Ethiopia written by Siegbert Uhlig and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ETHIOPIA is a compendium on Ethiopia and Northeast Africa for travellers, students, businessmen, people interested in Africa, policymakers and organisations. In this book 85 specialists from 15 countries write about the land of our fossil ancestor `Lucy', about its rock-hewn churches and national parks, about the coexistence of Christians and Muslims, and about strange cultures, but also about contemporary developments and major challenges to the region. Across ten chapters they describe the land and people, its history, cultures, religions, society and politics, as well as recent issues and unique destinations, documented with tables, maps, further reading suggestions and photos.

Download or read book Invasion of the Ortaks Book 5 Barbarians written by Sveinn Benónýsson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing the greatest army ever to be summoned from the Underworld, the Elves make a stand with the Barbarians, side by side, in the battle at East Valley. Meanwhile, in the world of men, Queen Egny's army is facing their enemy at Big Berg Castle in Otanga, after the Ortaks' forces crossed Salmon Fjord into Hergia. The Ortaks claim Antonia as their lands, sending troops to the borders of Great Cape, and to White River. Elsewhere, gangs of outlaws are multiplying, making it hard to keep basic law and order in the kingdom, while the royal army is engrossed in warfare.

Download or read book Invasion of the Ortaks Book 6 Vikings written by Sveinn Benónýsson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing war in Esthopia is beginning to leave its mark on the lands, as outlaws and noblemen begin claiming their lands in Queen Egny's kingdom. Meanwhile, she sits on her throne in Otanga. The Ortaks Army invades Hergia from the south, while, at the same time, a large fleet of longships arrives on the shores of Hergia from the north. The Vikings are led by King Haldor The White and his half brother, Oskar The Black. They set up camp determinedly, claiming the northern valleys of Hergia as Haldor's kingdom. In Alfheim, the Elves and the Barbarians expand their knowledge of the Underworld with every battle they fight. But will the Elven Princess and the Barbarian Prince survive an ambush in the cave?

Download or read book The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia written by Valentina Peveri and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a beautiful garden to southern Ethiopian farmers? Anchored in the author’s perceptual approach to the people, plants, land, and food, The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia opens a window into the simple beauty and ecological vitality of an ensete garden. The ensete plant is only one among the many “unloved” crops that are marginalized and pushed close to disappearance by the advance of farming modernization and monocultural thinking. And yet its human companions, caught in a symbiotic and sensuous dialogue with the plant, still relate to each exemplar as having individual appearance, sensibility, charisma, and taste, as an epiphany of beauty and prosperity, and even believe that the plant can feel pain. Here a different story is recounted of these human-plant communities, one of reciprocal love at times practiced in an act of secrecy. The plot unfolds from the subversive and tasteful dimensions of gardening for subsistence and cooking in the garden of ensete through reflections on the cultural and edible dimensions of biodiversity to embrace hunger and beauty as absorbing aesthetic experiences in small-scale agriculture. Through this story, the reader will enter the material and spiritual world of ensete and contemplate it as a modest yet inspiring example of hope in rapidly deteriorating landscapes. Based on prolonged engagement with this “virtuous” plant of southwestern Ethiopia, this book provides a nuanced reading of the ensete ventricosum (avant-)garden and explores how the life in tiny, diverse, and womanly plots offers alternative visions of nature, food policy, and conservation efforts.

Download or read book Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia written by Christopher Clapham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 text traces the continuities between revolutionary Ethiopia and the development of a centralised Ethiopian state since the nineteenth century.

Download or read book Cattle Poetics written by Jean-Baptiste Eczet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. The killing of cattle may be brief and inflicted with few words, but it is preceded by a series of intense aesthetic practices, such as body painting and adornments, colour poetics, poems and oratory art. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle with Mursi daily life and finds that these rituals cut across pastoralism, social organisation and politics in forming the very fabric of Mursi society.

Download or read book The Ethics of Beauty written by Timothy G. Patitsas and published by St. Nicholas Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaste and ardent eros for the Beautiful is the first task of human life, and falling in love with Beauty is the beginning of every adventure that matters...The original task of Ethics was to guide us to the most just and meaningful life possible. Today, ethicists define their discipline more narrowly as "the rational investigation of morality." This reduces Ethics to an examination of the Good by the True, tacitly suppressing the deep human need for the Beautiful.In The Ethics of Beauty, Orthodox Christian theologian Timothy Patitsas first considers Beauty's opposite, the dark events that traumatize victims of war and other ugly circumstances, and then invites us to rediscover the older Beauty-first approach to moral reasoning and the integrity of the soul.Covering topics ranging from creation to political theory to the Jesus Prayer, including war, psychology, trauma, chastity, healthy shame, gender, marriage, hospitality, art, architecture, theology, economics, urban planning, and complexity theory, The Ethics of Beauty lays out a worldview in which Beauty, Goodness, and Truth are recognized as indispensable elements of the best possible human life.

Download or read book Ethiopia written by John Markakis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical overview of Ethiopia's transformation from a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. Provides the gist of one scholar's knowledge of this country acquired over several decades. The author of numerous works on Ethiopia, Markakis presents here an overarching, concise historical profile of a momentous effort to integrate a multicultural empire into a modern nation state. The concept of nation state formation provides the analytical framework within which this process unfolds and the changes of direction it takes under different regimes, as well as a standard for assessing its progress and shortcomings at each stage. Over a century old, the process is still far from completion and its ultimate success is far from certain. In the author's view, there are two majorobstacles that need to be overcome, two frontiers that need to be crossed to reach the desired goal. The first is the monopoly of power inherited from the empire builders and zealously guarded ever since by a ruling class of Abyssinian origin. The descendants of the people subjugated by the empire builders remain excluded from power, a handicap that breeds political instability and violent conflict. The second frontier is the arid lowlands on the margins of the state, where the process of integration has not yet reached, and where resistance to it is greatest. Until this frontier is crossed, the Ethiopian state will not have the secure borders that a mature nation state requires. John Markakis is a political historian who has devoted a professional lifetime to the study of Ethiopia and its neighbours in the Horn of Africa. He has published several books and many articles on this area.

Download or read book Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896 written by Sean McLachlan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbours in creating an international empire, and her eyes turned toward Africa as a source of potential colonies. Securing a foothold in Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, the Italians quickly became embroiled in a shooting war with the Ethiopians. The war proved a disaster for the Italians, who suffered three major defeats against the forces of Emperor Menelik's army, including a horrendous massacre at Adowa, the largest defeat of a colonial army prior to World War I. This book looks at the campaign with an emphasis on the colourful uniforms worn by both sides.

Download or read book Haile Selassie Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ethiopia in Pictures 2nd Edition written by Jeffrey Zuehlke and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and current look at Ethiopia, discussing the land, the government, the culture, the people, and the economy.

Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.