Richard Pankhurst
Biographic Data
| ID | 75970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Pankhurst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Pankhurst |
| SIGNATURE | PANKHURST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Addis Ababa University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
In memoriam Afäwärq Täkle (1932–2012)
Obituary
In memoriam Stanislaw Chojnacki (1951-2010)
Obituary
Two Visits to Mugär Gädam, Šäwa
The article describes two field trips to a little-known craftsman’s gädam, or monastery, in northern Šäwa. This institution, which, like other such monasteries in the region, probably dates from the late seventeenth or early eighteenh century, seems to have come into existance as a result of the rise of the Šäwan state. This development apparently attracted Fälaša, or Judaic, craftsmen — weavers, blacksmiths and potters — from the Gondär area, wh…
Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, Alessandro Gori, and Irma Taddia
Review
Ethiopian Dynastic Marriage and the Bétä Esra'él
Significant contacts between the Ethiopian State and the Bétä Esraʾél began in the late sixteenth century with the move of the imperial capital to the Lake Ṭana area, which was relatively near to Fälaša settlements in or around the Sämén mountains.At about this time Ḥarägo, an apparently high-born Fälaša woman, supposedly the sister of Gedéwon, the Bétä Esraʾél ruler of Sämén, and reportedly a recent convert to Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, be…
Innovation and Misoneism during the Reign of Emperor Yoḥannǝs IV (1872–1889)
The article attempts to examine the character and extent of innovation and misoneism during the reign of Yoḥannǝs, i.e. the period between the largely frustrated aspirations of Tewodros and of more substantial achievements of Mǝnilǝk. The study suggests that the reign of Yoḥannǝs in fact witnessed changes in many fields of life. These included improvements in communication between Ethiopia and the outside world; the advent of new imports; changes…
Queen Ṭǝru Wärq’s Necklace
Miscellaneous ArticleThe article, which traces the Ethiopian history of beads and necklaces, focuses on an unpublished necklace which belonged to Emperor Tewodros’s consort Queen Ṭǝru Wärq. Acquired by Robert Napier, apparently after her death in 1868, it was presented by Napier to the then British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The necklace, though unique, is in Ethiopia’s necklace tradition; and utilizes the country’s three main traditional …
Two Unpublished 19th Century Ethiopian Letters
The two letters here published supplement those in Sven Rubenson’s invaluable compilation “Tewodros and his Contemporaries”. The first letter throws intriguing light on Emperor Tewodros’s remarkably amical attitude to the British in the run-up to his military confrontation with them at Mäqdäla. The second letter, the background to which has still to be established, may be regarded as a contribution to our knowledge of däǧǧazmač Nǝguśe’s rule in T…
Ethiopia and the Great Transformation
The article considers Karl Polanyi’s thesis that 19th century Western capitalism was unique in basing itself on the principle of gain, as expressed by the self-regulating market system. Polanyi’s argument is examined in the light of Ethiopian historical experience, with special reference to land and labour (including slavery), agricultural production, control over trade and prices, and traditional institutions which curtail or serve as an alterna…
Slavery and Emancipation in Traditional Ethiopia
This paper is concerned with slavery and emancipation in traditional Ethiopia and in particular with the role of the country’s legal code, the Fetha Nagast or Laws of the Kings. This document, it should be emphasised, discusses household or domestic slavery, which was widely practised in old-time Christian Ethiopia, and resulted largely from the capture of men, women and children in warfare. Such slavery, which differed in many ways from the capi…
Barara, the Royal City of 15th and Early 16th Century (Ethiopia). Medieval and Other Early Settlements Between Wechecha Range and Mt Yerer
and early 16th century Ethiopia and describes the results of a field survey aimed at locating this important Ethiopian capital in South Shoa, close to Addis Ababa, today Ethiopia’s capital. Basing themselves on an analysis of historic sources and satellite imagery, geographic considerations and practical field surveys, the authors identified new sites which seem to reach back to pre-medieval times and demonstrate the long and as yet unknown histo…
Chapter Six. Somali Migration To Aden From The 19th To The 21st Centuries
Introduction to the proposal by Sylvia Pankhurst for an Ethiopian women’s college, 1959
Introduction to the proposal by Sylvia Pankhurst for an Ethiopian women’s college, 1959." Gender and Education, 20(1), pp. 65–66 Notes 1. On her life in Ethiopia see R. Pankhurst. 2003. Sylvia Pankhurst: Counsel for Ethiopia. Los Angeles, CA: Tsehai Publishers. 2. Typescript kindly made available by Mr. Geoffrey C. Last, former senior foreign adviser to the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. 2. On these nurseries see E. Sylvia Pankhurst. 1932. The …
King Lalibela
Cet article détaille l'histoire d'une « bande dessinée » retraçant la vie du roi Lalibela, réalisée et peinte par un artiste traditionnel des églises éthiopiennes désormais âgé, Qes Marigeta Afawarq de Lalibela. Ce travail, dont plusieurs copies sont étudiées, se place dans la tradition des célèbres « bandes dessinées » narrant la visite de la reine de Saba au roi Salomon. Ces peintures représentent une époque importante dans l'histoire de l'Éthi…
Somali Migration to Aden from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
The Somali connection with the Yemeni port of Aden is old and owed much to the slave trade. The chapter uses an autobiography of a Somali - Ibrahim Isma’il. He relates that, while still an infant, he heard of a place called Aden, from whence dates and other good things came; there one could go into a market and help oneself to all dainties; there were many Somali children with whom one could play; and could learn to speak Arabic. Post World War I…
Ethiopian Painting of King Takla Haymanot's War with the Dervishes
n the late 1960s or early 1970s, an American traveller, Joseph * Knopfelmacher, acquired an im mense and very remarkable * Ethiopian painting on cloth a that was later purchased by the L Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville. This painting, which is far larger than any known work of its kind, is made up of six pieces of cloth, four large and two small. Together they form a monumental work more than 25' (7.6m) wid…
Sylvia Pankhurst, Ethiopia, and the Spanish Civil War
The article traces the committed reaction of the author’s mother, former suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, to the Italian fascist invasion and occupation of Ethiopia and to the Spanish Civil War. Notes [1] R. Pankhurst (2001) An Early Anti‐Fascist Organisation: the Women’s International Matteotti Committee, Socialist History, XIX, pp. 1–29. [2] R. Pankhurst (1992) Sylvia and New Times and Ethiopia News, in I. Bullock & R. Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst …
Sylvia pankhurst's last words on christabel
The conflict in the Edwardian suffragette movement between Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst has raised questions as to the relationship between the two sisters in later life. To throw light on this question the author in 2001 published in Women's History Review the text of twelve letters written from 1953, when the correspondence began, to 1957, when it ended some six months before Christabel's death. This correspondence may be supplemented by a r…
Economic change in late nineteenth and early twentieth Century Ethiopia
Pankhurst Richard. Economic change in late nineteenth and early twentieth Century Ethiopia: a period of accelerated innovation. In: Annales d'Ethiopie. Volume 20, année 2004. pp. 195-219
Ethiopian Figurines from Mugar Monastery in shawa
Two early periodical publications "Djibouti" and "Le Semeur d'Éthiopie" as sources for late 19th century and early 20th century Ethiopian history
Pankhurst Richard. Two early periodical publications "Djibouti" and "Le Semeur d'Éthiopie" as sources for late 19th century and early 20th century Ethiopian history. In: Annales d'Ethiopie. Volume 19, année 2003. pp. 231-256
Suffragette sisters in old age
Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) and Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960) were key figures in the fight for women's suffrage in Edwardian Britain but became estranged in 1914 over differences of view about policies and tactics for winning the vote. They had no contact with each other for almost forty years. In the spring of 1953, Sylvia had a severe heart attack and was not expected to survive. Christabel wrote a letter of sympathy to her which led, over…
The Ethiopian Borderlands
Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands: essays in regional history, from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century.Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 489 pp., £12.99, ISBN 0 932415 19 9. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Ethiopia Photographed
Tractatus Tres Historico-Geographici (1634)
Menelik and the Foundation of Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa, today the most populous city on the eastern side of Africa between Cairo and Johannesburg, was founded by the Emperor Menelik II in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The event, which was important in modern Ethiopian history as a landmark in the reorganization and modernization of the State, is not without interest in the wider perspective of the African continent where it provides a unique example of rapid urban growth in …
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892
Journal Article The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892: A New Assessment Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST *Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellassie I UniversityAddis Ababa, Ethiopia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXI, Issue 2, April 1966, Pages 95-124, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXI.2.95 Published: 01 April 1966
An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia from Early Times to 1800
History of Ethiopian Towns from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1935
Indian Trade with Ethiopia, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
R. Pankhurst - Le commerce indien avec l'Ethiopie, le golfe d'Aden et la Corne de l'Afrique au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe. Les courants commerciaux entre la côte occidentale de l'Inde et la « Corne » de l'Afrique, aux mains de « banyans » (commerçants hindous), ont subsisté et se sont même parfois renforcés jusqu'après l'intervention directe européenne, pénétrant très avant dans l'intérieur. Témoignages de voyageurs sur l'importance de ce tra…
Ethiopian Medieval and Post-Medieval Capitals
This paper examines two closely related institutions of medieval and post-medieval Ethiopia: the moving camp and the military settlement, both of which on occasion played a role normally associated with a capital. The second part of the study attempts to consider the traditional Ethiopian capital, the composition and size of its population, the type of site usually selected for it, the extent to which it was in one period or another fortified—and…
The Napier Expedition and The Loot From Maqdala
History of Ethiopian Towns from the Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century
Imported Textiles in Ethiopian Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Manuscript Bindings in Britain
We are pleased to publish another product of the multi-faceted scholarship of Dr Pankhurst, Senior Research Fellow of the British Institute. This article is the first substantial treatment of its subject. It is planned that it should be followed by another in Azania XVI, dealing with textiles of the eighteenth century. This study, mainly in the form of a catalogue, describes the different types of cotton and silk cloth imported into Ethiopia betw…
Ethiopia and The Loot of the ltalian Invasion
L'auteur, qui est Directeur de l'Institut d'Etudes Ethiopiennes, nous décrit la mainmise, à partir de 1935, par les envahisseurs italiens sur les monuments nationaux éthiopiens parmi lesquels « Le Lion de Judah » et la statue équestre de l'Empereur Menelik II, vainqueur des Italiens à la bataille d'Adowa en 1896. Pour les peuples opprimés ces statues signifient la longue indépendance et la gloire de leur pays, sinon un esprit « anti-italien » qui…
Ethiopian Painting of King Takla Haymanot's War with the Dervishes
n the late 1960s or early 1970s, an American traveller, Joseph * Knopfelmacher, acquired an im mense and very remarkable * Ethiopian painting on cloth a that was later purchased by the L Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville. This painting, which is far larger than any known work of its kind, is made up of six pieces of cloth, four large and two small. Together they form a monumental work more than 25' (7.6m) wid…
The Ethiopian Borderlands
Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands: essays in regional history, from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century.Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 489 pp., £12.99, ISBN 0 932415 19 9. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Imported textiles in Ethiopian eighteenth century manuscript bindings in Britain
This is the second of two articles; textiles of earlier date are described in Volume XV of Azania. The author was in Ethiopia for many years, and latterly Senior Research Fellow of the BIEA. Samples of textiles preserved in the bindings of Ethiopian eighteenth century manuscripts, like those of earlier times examined in a previous article, provide tangible evidence on the wide variety of cloth imported into the country in former times. This mater…
An eighteenth century Ethiopian dynastic marriage contract between Empress Mentewwab of Gondar and Ras Mika'el Sehul of Tegre
The decline of the Gondarine monarchy and the concomitant increase in wealth and power of Tegre province, and of its capital Adwa, led, in the mid-eighteenth century, to a shift in the Ethiopian balance of power. This development, which threatened the then impoverished ruling house of Gondar, and the very continuity of the but weakly centralized State, resulted, as on other such occasions, in a major dynastic alliance between the contending parti…
Introduction to the proposal by Sylvia Pankhurst for an Ethiopian women’s college, 1959
Introduction to the proposal by Sylvia Pankhurst for an Ethiopian women’s college, 1959." Gender and Education, 20(1), pp. 65–66 Notes 1. On her life in Ethiopia see R. Pankhurst. 2003. Sylvia Pankhurst: Counsel for Ethiopia. Los Angeles, CA: Tsehai Publishers. 2. Typescript kindly made available by Mr. Geoffrey C. Last, former senior foreign adviser to the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. 2. On these nurseries see E. Sylvia Pankhurst. 1932. The …
Ethiopian Figurines from Mugar Monastery in shawa
The Role of Indian Craftsmen in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Ethiopian Palace, Church and Other Building
In Ethiopia the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth were of crucial importance. This period witnessed the rise of King, after 1889 Emperor, Menilek, founder of the modern Ethiopian state. He it was who established the presentcapital, Addis Ababa, in 1886–7, defeated an Italian colonial army at the battle of Adwain 1896, and between 1905 and 1910 established a number of modern institutions, including the first mod…
The Falashas, or Judaic Ethiopians, in Their Christian Ethiopian Setting
Journal Article THE FALASHAS, OR JUDAIC ETHIOPIANS, IN THEIR CHRISTIAN ETHIOPIAN SETTING Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST Richard Pankhurst, founder and first Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa and sometime Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society in London, is currently Professor at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, V…
Ethiopian Manuscript Illumination
After Dr. Pankhurst's articles in Azania XV and XVI on imported textiles used in Ethiopian manuscript bindings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, we are now pleased to have this account of the illustrations contained in some of those manuscripts in the British Library
The History of the Kwer‘ata Re’esu
Journal Article THE HISTORY OF THE KWER‘ATA RE’ESU: AN ETHIOPIANICON Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST Dr Richard Pankhurst is the author of several books on Ethiopia, most recently Tax Records and Inventories of Emperor T ́wodros of Ethiopia 1855–1868 (London 1978) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 81, Issue 322, January 1982, Pages 117–125, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfor…
The history of Däbrä Tabor (Ethiopia)
Däbrä Tabor, the capital of Begemdir and headquarters of Emperors Tewodros II and Yohannes IV, was established, according to tradition, by the remarkable Oromo, or Galla, chieftain Ras Gugsa Mersa who held sway in the province from 1798 to 1825. He was the nephew of Ali Guangul, the founder of a Muslim dynasty, which as theislamisantSpencer Trimingham asserts, 'became nominal members of the national Church for political reasons
Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Fascist Occupation (1936-1941)
The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia
Journal Article The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST Haile Sellassie I UniversityAddis Ababa, Ethiopia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXIV, Issue 3, July 1969, Pages 323–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXIV.3.323 Published: 01 July 1969
The Saint-Simonians, Mill and Carlyle
L'indépendance de l'Éthiopie et son importation d'armes au XIX e siècle
Transport and Communications in Ethiopia, 1835–1935 (I)
Menelik and the Foundation of Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa, today the most populous city on the eastern side of Africa between Cairo and Johannesburg, was founded by the Emperor Menelik II in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The event, which was important in modern Ethiopian history as a landmark in the reorganization and modernization of the State, is not without interest in the wider perspective of the African continent where it provides a unique example of rapid urban growth in …
Primitive money' in Ethiopia
Pankhurst Richard. 'Primitive money' in Ethiopia. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1962, tome 32, fascicule 2. pp. 213-248
Transport and Communications in Ethiopia, 1835 — 1935 (III)
Transport and Communications in Ethiopia, 1835 — 1935 (II)
An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia from Early Times to 1800
Théodore II
An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia from Early Times to 1800
Ethiopia
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888–4892
Journal Article The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888–4892: A New Assessment Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST *Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellassie I UniversityAddis Ababa, Ethiopia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXI, Issue 3, July 1966, Pages 271–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXI.3.271 Published: 01 July 1966
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892
Journal Article The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892: A New Assessment Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST *Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellassie I UniversityAddis Ababa, Ethiopia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXI, Issue 2, April 1966, Pages 95-124, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXI.2.95 Published: 01 April 1966
Economic history of Ethiopia, 1800-1935
The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia
Journal Article The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia Get access RICHARD PANKHURST RICHARD PANKHURST Haile Sellassie I UniversityAddis Ababa, Ethiopia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXIV, Issue 3, July 1969, Pages 323–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXIV.3.323 Published: 01 July 1969
Ethiopia and The Loot of the ltalian Invasion
L'auteur, qui est Directeur de l'Institut d'Etudes Ethiopiennes, nous décrit la mainmise, à partir de 1935, par les envahisseurs italiens sur les monuments nationaux éthiopiens parmi lesquels « Le Lion de Judah » et la statue équestre de l'Empereur Menelik II, vainqueur des Italiens à la bataille d'Adowa en 1896. Pour les peuples opprimés ces statues signifient la longue indépendance et la gloire de leur pays, sinon un esprit « anti-italien » qui…
Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Fascist Occupation (1936-1941)
Indian Trade with Ethiopia, the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
R. Pankhurst - Le commerce indien avec l'Ethiopie, le golfe d'Aden et la Corne de l'Afrique au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe. Les courants commerciaux entre la côte occidentale de l'Inde et la « Corne » de l'Afrique, aux mains de « banyans » (commerçants hindous), ont subsisté et se sont même parfois renforcés jusqu'après l'intervention directe européenne, pénétrant très avant dans l'intérieur. Témoignages de voyageurs sur l'importance de ce tra…
Old-Time Ethiopian Cures for Syphilis, Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries
The role of fire-arms in ethioрan culture (16th to 20th centuries)
Pankhurst Richard. The role of fire-arms in ethioрan culture (16th to 20th centuries).. In: Journal des africanistes, 1977, tome 47, fascicule 2. pp. 131-144
A Chronology of Menilek II of Ethiopia, 1844-1913, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1889-1913
The history of Däbrä Tabor (Ethiopia)
Däbrä Tabor, the capital of Begemdir and headquarters of Emperors Tewodros II and Yohannes IV, was established, according to tradition, by the remarkable Oromo, or Galla, chieftain Ras Gugsa Mersa who held sway in the province from 1798 to 1825. He was the nephew of Ali Guangul, the founder of a Muslim dynasty, which as theislamisantSpencer Trimingham asserts, 'became nominal members of the national Church for political reasons
Ethiopian Medieval and Post-Medieval Capitals
This paper examines two closely related institutions of medieval and post-medieval Ethiopia: the moving camp and the military settlement, both of which on occasion played a role normally associated with a capital. The second part of the study attempts to consider the traditional Ethiopian capital, the composition and size of its population, the type of site usually selected for it, the extent to which it was in one period or another fortified—and…
An eighteenth century Ethiopian dynastic marriage contract between Empress Mentewwab of Gondar and Ras Mika'el Sehul of Tegre
The decline of the Gondarine monarchy and the concomitant increase in wealth and power of Tegre province, and of its capital Adwa, led, in the mid-eighteenth century, to a shift in the Ethiopian balance of power. This development, which threatened the then impoverished ruling house of Gondar, and the very continuity of the but weakly centralized State, resulted, as on other such occasions, in a major dynastic alliance between the contending parti…
Haile Selassie I. Ethiopia's Lion of Judah. By Peter Schwab. Chicago
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