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'The Red Sea is the key to the Mediterranean'. The Italo-Ottoman war and the Red Sea region (1911–1912)
In: The journal of North African studies, S. 1-25
ISSN: 1743-9345
From Incunabula to Book History: Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Search for their Printed Past
In: Aethiopica: international journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean studies, Band 24
ISSN: 2194-4024
The history of the printed book in Africa is a relatively new line of inquiry. One of the most challenging issues confronting its practitioners will be to produce authoritative and comprehensive records of the national output of African countries, an essential prerequisite before venturing into more complex analysis. In this panorama, Eritrea and Ethiopia seem to represent two happy exceptions: the pioneering work of Ḫǝruy Wäldä Śǝllase, Stephen Wright's Ethiopian Incunabula and then the supplements by Stefan Strelcyn, Osvaldo Raineri, and Kibrom Tseggai have allowed for the reconstruction of large sections of the print production of the two countries. This article maps out the cultural and political context in which the attention for Ethiopian incunabula emerged and traces the stages of the collective effort that has allowed the preservation of the traces of the early printed documentation in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The article argues that there are still significant margins of improvement in the retrospective coverage of the history of the printed book in Africa, especially since the arrival of digital technologies and the Internet that have offered a very effective set of tools for solving some of the problems that have plagued African retrospective national bibliographies since their inception.
From Incunabula to Book History: Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Search for their Printed Past
The history of the printed book in Africa is a relatively new line of inquiry. One of the most challenging issues confronting its practitioners will be to produce authoritative and comprehensive records of the national output of African countries, an essential prerequisite before venturing into more complex analysis. In this panorama, Eritrea and Ethiopia seem to represent two happy exceptions: the pioneering work of Ḫǝruy Wäldä Śǝllase, Stephen Wright's Ethiopian Incunabula and then the supplements by Stefan Strelcyn, Osvaldo Raineri, and Kibrom Tseggai have allowed for the reconstruction of large sections of the print production of the two countries. This article maps out the cultural and political context in which the attention for Ethiopian incunabula emerged and traces the stages of the collective effort that has allowed the preservation of the traces of the early printed documentation in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The article argues that there are still significant margins of improvement in the retrospective coverage of the history of the printed book in Africa, especially since the arrival of digital technologies and the Internet that have offered a very effective set of tools for solving some of the problems that have plagued African retrospective national bibliographies since their inception.
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Silvia Bruzzi, Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa: Sittī ʿAlawiyya, the Uncrowned Queen
In: Aethiopica: international journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean studies, Band 23
ISSN: 2194-4024
Book Review
The World in World Wars. Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia. Ed. by Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah and Ravi Ahuja. [Studies in Global Social History, Vol. 5.] Brill, Leiden [etc.]2010. vii, 613 pp. € 129.00; $183.00
In: International review of social history, Band 57, Heft 3, S. 478-480
ISSN: 1469-512X
Marta Petricioli, Oltre il mito. L'Egitto degli italiani (1917-1947)
In: Il politico: rivista italiana di scienze politiche ; rivista quardrimestrale, Band 73, Heft 2, S. 245-246
ISSN: 0032-325X
Counting the cost of war: the Great War's economic impact on Africa
In: Afriche e orienti anno 21 (2019), numero 3
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Wage Labor and Mobility in Colonial Eritrea, 1880s to 1920s
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 86, S. 89-106
ISSN: 1471-6445
AbstractMobility and wage labor are two key variables that help to explain some of the complexities of the labor history of colonial Eritrea. Focusing on the initial period of Italian colonization, between the 1880s and 1920s, this article analyzes the relationship between the two above-mentioned variables. Based on previously unexplored archival sources and documents, the authors conclude that wage labor did contribute to the mobility of workers throughout the region (and not vice versa). In the period under consideration, Eritrea did not become a settler colony, despite Italy's initial efforts to import a national labor force. Instead, through a mix of capital investments in construction and transport, and increasing military recruitment, the Italian regime contributed significantly to an increase in free wage labor in the region. Within a year of Italy's 1911 invasion of Libya, it needed to reinforce its colonial army. From 1912 onward, in return for wages, tens of thousands of Eritreans entered the Italian colonial army to fight on the Libyan front. This military employment left voids in the local labor market, which were filled by people from neighboring countries, particularly Ethiopians and Yemenis. A relationship thus developed and continued between mobility and wage labor.