Download or read book Modern Abyssinia written by Augustus Blandy Wylde and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Modern Abyssinia written by Augustus Blandy Wylde and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Modern Abyssinia written by Augustus B. Wylde and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Abyssinia Classic Reprint written by Augustus Blandy Wylde and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern Abyssinia Many of the happiest days of my life have been spent in the uplands of Abyssinia, enjoying the ever varying scenery Of mountain, valley and plain, looking at the lovely flowers, plants and trees, the birds with their gorgeous plumage, the animals and the butterflies, moths and insects, many of them being unknown in other countries. NO day ever seemed to be too long, and I know of no country that would repay the botanist, naturalist, geologist or artist better, than a year passed collecting and studying the varied objects to be met with. The seasons in Abyssinia are more marked than in many other parts of the world, and immediately after the rains commence there is a change from the dull browns, greys and reds of the forest, field and fell, to vivid and tender greens of all shades, and this sudden alteration in the colours of the landscape is more marked in the provinces of Tigre and Amhara in the north and centre, than in the open wind swept downs of Shoa in the southern portion of the kingdom. I have seen the country at all times of the year: during the rainy season and the dry, after the summer and winter rains, while the ground is being broken up and the seed planted, and at harvest time when the crops are being gathered; also during the time of peace and prosperity, with the busy villages and contented inhabitants, during war, famine and pestilence and then still at another time, when kind nature in one short season has hidden man's hideous handiwork and covered the ruins of the hamlets and their unburied occupants with a thick growth of vegetation. There is no harder worker than the Abyssinian peasant, and no more harmless and hospitable person when left alone and properly treated; and no more truculent, worthless, conceited, lazy and useless individual than the Abyssinian soldier, who formerly did nothing but prey upon the de fenceless cultivator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Battle of Adwa written by Raymond Jonas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule. Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa. Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.
Download or read book Unconquered Abyssinia as it is To day written by Sir Charles Fernand Rey and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541 1543 as narrated by Castanhoso written by R.S. Whiteway and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated and Edited and Including a bibliography of Abyssinia, pp. civ-cxxxii. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1902. Owing to technical constraints the map which appeared in the original edition of the book is not included.
Download or read book Ethiopian Warriorhood written by Tsehai Berhane-Selassie and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the often-overlooked chewa Ethiopian warriors and their crucial role in defending their homeland against invasion, as well as their strong influence on political identity and the social infrastructure.
Download or read book The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541 1543 as narrated by Castanhoso written by J. Bermudez and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Integration and Peace in East Africa written by T. Etefa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the development of indigenous religious, commercial, and political institutions among the Oromo mainly during the relatively peaceful two centuries in its history, from 1704 to 1882. The largest ethnic group in East Africa, the Oromo promoted peace, cultural assimilation, and ethnic integration.
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Download or read book Seven Years in Southern Abyssinia written by Sir Arnold Wienholt Hodson and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAPTAIN HODSON was sent in 1914 to establish the first British Consulate in Southern Abyssinia, his immediate purpose being to safeguard the timid Boran tribes and the elephants of Kenya Colony against further raids across the border. His appointment was agreed to with some reluctance on the part of the Ethiopian government, partly because it was a reflection on that government's capacity to control the acts of its own peoples, but largely because of the ingrained and not altogether unfounded suspicion that all such appointments are symptomatic of the desire of Europeans to increase their influence in the last and only indigenous independent State in Africa. To add to Capt. Hodson's difficulties, he increased suspicion of his motives by having to enter Abyssinia from the south—the railway from Jubito to Addis Ababa was not then constructed—as there is a legend among the peoples of Abyssinia that it is from the south that the white man will eventually overrun their country. The fact that it took the author nearly six years to establish his consulate, although the ruler at Addis Ababa ostensibly favoured the project from the outset, is not a reflection upon his courage, negotiating skill, or determination, but an indication of the state of chaos of the country and the contempt for Europeans which existed.
