The Highlands of Aethiopia
Author : William Cornwallis Harris
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : William Cornwallis Harris
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : William Cornwallis Sir Harris
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Travel
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The Highlands of Ethiopia is a memoir of Sir William Cornwallis Harris. In this book, he describes his journey as the first British Ambassador to the Christian Court of the Kingdom of Shoa in the highlands of Aethiopia, ruled at the time by Sahela Selassie. That mission paved the way for trade with this part of Africa and ultimately for the British colonization of large territories of Africa, including Sudan.
Author : Sir William Cornwallis Harris
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Ethiopia
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Author : Verena Krebs
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 3030649342
This book explores why Ethiopian kings pursued long-distance diplomatic contacts with Latin Europe in the late Middle Ages. It traces the history of more than a dozen embassies dispatched to the Latin West by the kings of Solomonic Ethiopia, a powerful Christian kingdom in the medieval Horn of Africa. Drawing on sources from Europe, Ethiopia, and Egypt, it examines the Ethiopian kings’ motivations for sending out their missions in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries – and argues that a desire to acquire religious treasures and foreign artisans drove this early intercontinental diplomacy. Moreover, the Ethiopian initiation of contacts with the distant Christian sphere of Latin Europe appears to have been intimately connected to a local political agenda of building monumental ecclesiastical architecture in the North-East African highlands, and asserted the Ethiopian rulers’ claim of universal kingship and rightful descent from the biblical king Solomon. Shedding new light on the self-identity of a late medieval African dynasty at the height of its power, this book challenges conventional narratives of African-European encounters on the eve of the so-called ‘Age of Exploration'.
Author : Harris William Cornwallis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781018266893
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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frances M. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 331902180X
Understanding Ethiopia is a detailed description of Ethiopia’s geological story and enables non-specialist readers to share the author’s thrill at gaining a deeper insight into the processes which produced, and continue to shape, this amazing country. Ethiopia’s spectacular landscapes, ranging from mountains over 4500m high to salt plains 150m below sea level, are a reflection of the geological processes that formed the country. Indeed, its history and the historical sites, for which it is renowned, are largely determined by geology. Readers learn why and how Ethiopia’s geology is both unique and dynamic, as here the earth’s crust is in the process of breaking apart.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004500383
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19), covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous new and leading scholars, CMR 19, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Aščerić-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel
Author : KEVIN SHILLINGTON.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1908 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2005
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ISBN : 1135456704
Author : Dervla Murphy
Publisher : Eland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 9781906011673
The real acheivement of Dervla's trip across Ethiopia was not surviving three armed robberies or a mountainous thousand-mile trail, but rather her growing affection for and understanding of another race.
Author : Ezekiel Gebissa
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780852554807
In the late-19th-century, the main cash crop of Harerge, Ethiopia, shifted from coffee and food crops to khat, a quasi-legal psychoactive shrub. This text examines the demographic, market and political factors behind this change and explores the consequences. North America: Ohio U Press