David Footman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1191647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Footman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Footman |
| SIGNATURE | FOOTMAN D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Antonin Besse of Aden
The Firm in Ethiopia
Perhaps the outstanding development of the firm of Besse was in post-liberation Ethiopia, and it will be convenient to deal with this in a separate chapter, even though this means going a few years ahead. For AB it was a matter of extreme urgency to start up again in Abyssinia. Thanks, in part, to Kynaston's influence with the various authorities, Maurice Weerts was allowed to leave for Berbera in good time; after an adventurous journey he reache…
Aden in War-Time
It was a profound relief to AB to be back in Aden, with day-to-day life once more in the familiar rhythm; though his swims and his climbs were necessarily less strenuous than before his accident. There is an elegant reference in Freya Stark's memoirs: ... Hilda Besse and Anton, sparkling with gaiety and malice. King of the Red Sea coasts and their commerce, and living — as befitted the manipulator of so many of its complicated strings — a little …
The Title Deeds
It was in early 1933 that two of AB's young men, Charles Fenn and Jeff Collins, staged the nearest approach to a successful revolt that ever took place in the Besse office. AB went off for a tour of his African agencies. Before leaving he told Collins to buy a dhow that was coming on the market, and named the price. There was unexpected competition and Collins had to go above the figure given: to miss the dhow would have been thought a major cala…
A Secondment
The technicalities of the oil business made it desirable that Shell should have one of their own men seconded to AB's office in Aden — all the more so in view of the organisational developments that were shortly to come. In 1928 Shell and Anglo-Persian agreed to merge their marketing. A new Company — The Consolidated Petroleum Company — was formed to implement the agreement. Management was to be in the hands of Shell; and so Shell's Cairo Represe…
The Settlement
As against the unsecured liabilities amounting to nearly £300 000 Stoner had certain unpledged assets which, it was hoped, might realise £20 000. Debts owing to the partnership came to £7000, but only some £3000 had any prospect of being collected. The creditors could be divided into five groups. There were the small creditors — some twenty of them — with claims totalling £6500. There were the shipbuilders: Thorneycrofts for the MV Elizabeth Ston…
Shell
In the years immediately following World War I the consumption of petrol in the areas where AB traded was small; motorised transport on any scale was yet to come. Of far greater interest to the big oil companies was kerosene (paraffin), for which the demand was already substantial. In 1922 the local market was dominated by the Standard Oil Company of New York. There were, as yet, no shipments in bulk. Supplies were shipped in 'units', a unit comp…
Passage to Aden
We can be sure that the 'very real anxieties' to which AB refers in his letter home were concerned with the finding of a suitable opening in civil life.
World War II
At the time of Munich AB was in London with HB. They dined at Frascati's and went to Studio One. There was a newsreel of the return of Mr Chamberlain from Germany and some members of the audience hissed. AB, strongly opposed to the Munich agreement, was gratified at what he felt to be the healthy state of public opinion in Great Britain. A few weeks later he was back in Aden. For the firm of Besse the year between Munich and the beginning of Worl…
Post-War
On VE Day AB and HB were in Aden, and spent the rest of the year 1945 between Aden and Ethiopia. That winter HB fell ill; and AB, perhaps remembering the state of France as he had last seen it, decided to take her for a cure to the Lebanon, where they spent the summer of 1946. The cure was successful; and in the spring of 1947 it was decided to go all the way to France in El Hak. They disembarked at St Raphael. The port had been badly damaged dur…
Stoner
The end of the war meant that AB could go ahead with his plans for expansion. Demobilisation eased the staff position; quite a number of young men were taken on during the winter. The firm's letter heading in early 1919 shows that the Yemeni agencies — Hodeida and Mokha — had been re-opened, and that, on the African side, the firm was established in Djibouti, Zeila, Bulhar, Berbera, Addis Abeba, Diredawa, Harrar, Mogadiscio, Merca, Brava, Itala, …
Arabian Airways
In the early thirties a journey from Aden to the Hadhramaut was quite an undertaking. The first stage was to get to Mukalla. Those reluctant to face the discomfort and uncertainties of travel by dhow must wait for one of the rare steamers. The voyage by steamer, in the most favourable weather conditions, took over thirty hours. From Mukalla on to Shibam, Seiyun or Tarim the journey was by mule or camel. Travel to other destinations was also time-…
International Communism
Civil War in Russia
Soviet Affairs, III
Civil War in Russia
Civil War in Russia
Journal Article Civil War in Russia Get access Civil War in Russia. By David Footman. London, Faber & Faber, 1961. 328 pp. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 35s. C. G. C. G. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 1962, Pages 416–417, https://doi.org/10.2307/2609517 Published: 01 July 1962
Soviet Affairs
The Russian Intelligentsia
Journal Article The Russian Intelligentsia: Makers of the Revolutionary State Get access The Russian Intelligentsia: Makers of the Revolutionary State. By Stuart Ramsay Tompkins. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. xiii+ 282 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $5. David Footman David Footman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1958, Pages 499–500, https://doi.o…
The Russian Intelligentsia
Journal Article The Russian Intelligentsia: Makers of the Revolutionary State Get access The Russian Intelligentsia: Makers of the Revolutionary State. By Stuart Ramsay Tompkins. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. xiii+ 282 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $5. David Footman David Footman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1958, Pages 499–500, https://doi.o…
The Russian Intelligentsia
Journal Article The Russian Intelligentsia: Makers of the Revolutionary State Get access The Russian Intelligentsia: Makers of the Revolutionary State. By Stuart Ramsay Tompkins. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. xiii+ 282 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $5. David Footman David Footman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 1958, Pages 499–500, https://doi.o…
Soviet Affairs
Civil War in Russia
Journal Article Civil War in Russia Get access Civil War in Russia. By David Footman. London, Faber & Faber, 1961. 328 pp. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 35s. C. G. C. G. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 38, Issue 3, July 1962, Pages 416–417, https://doi.org/10.2307/2609517 Published: 01 July 1962
Civil War in Russia
Soviet Affairs, III
Civil War in Russia
International Communism
Antonin Besse of Aden
The Firm in Ethiopia
Perhaps the outstanding development of the firm of Besse was in post-liberation Ethiopia, and it will be convenient to deal with this in a separate chapter, even though this means going a few years ahead. For AB it was a matter of extreme urgency to start up again in Abyssinia. Thanks, in part, to Kynaston's influence with the various authorities, Maurice Weerts was allowed to leave for Berbera in good time; after an adventurous journey he reache…
Aden in War-Time
It was a profound relief to AB to be back in Aden, with day-to-day life once more in the familiar rhythm; though his swims and his climbs were necessarily less strenuous than before his accident. There is an elegant reference in Freya Stark's memoirs: ... Hilda Besse and Anton, sparkling with gaiety and malice. King of the Red Sea coasts and their commerce, and living — as befitted the manipulator of so many of its complicated strings — a little …
The Title Deeds
It was in early 1933 that two of AB's young men, Charles Fenn and Jeff Collins, staged the nearest approach to a successful revolt that ever took place in the Besse office. AB went off for a tour of his African agencies. Before leaving he told Collins to buy a dhow that was coming on the market, and named the price. There was unexpected competition and Collins had to go above the figure given: to miss the dhow would have been thought a major cala…
A Secondment
The technicalities of the oil business made it desirable that Shell should have one of their own men seconded to AB's office in Aden — all the more so in view of the organisational developments that were shortly to come. In 1928 Shell and Anglo-Persian agreed to merge their marketing. A new Company — The Consolidated Petroleum Company — was formed to implement the agreement. Management was to be in the hands of Shell; and so Shell's Cairo Represe…
The Settlement
As against the unsecured liabilities amounting to nearly £300 000 Stoner had certain unpledged assets which, it was hoped, might realise £20 000. Debts owing to the partnership came to £7000, but only some £3000 had any prospect of being collected. The creditors could be divided into five groups. There were the small creditors — some twenty of them — with claims totalling £6500. There were the shipbuilders: Thorneycrofts for the MV Elizabeth Ston…
Shell
In the years immediately following World War I the consumption of petrol in the areas where AB traded was small; motorised transport on any scale was yet to come. Of far greater interest to the big oil companies was kerosene (paraffin), for which the demand was already substantial. In 1922 the local market was dominated by the Standard Oil Company of New York. There were, as yet, no shipments in bulk. Supplies were shipped in 'units', a unit comp…
Passage to Aden
We can be sure that the 'very real anxieties' to which AB refers in his letter home were concerned with the finding of a suitable opening in civil life.
World War II
At the time of Munich AB was in London with HB. They dined at Frascati's and went to Studio One. There was a newsreel of the return of Mr Chamberlain from Germany and some members of the audience hissed. AB, strongly opposed to the Munich agreement, was gratified at what he felt to be the healthy state of public opinion in Great Britain. A few weeks later he was back in Aden. For the firm of Besse the year between Munich and the beginning of Worl…
Post-War
On VE Day AB and HB were in Aden, and spent the rest of the year 1945 between Aden and Ethiopia. That winter HB fell ill; and AB, perhaps remembering the state of France as he had last seen it, decided to take her for a cure to the Lebanon, where they spent the summer of 1946. The cure was successful; and in the spring of 1947 it was decided to go all the way to France in El Hak. They disembarked at St Raphael. The port had been badly damaged dur…
Stoner
The end of the war meant that AB could go ahead with his plans for expansion. Demobilisation eased the staff position; quite a number of young men were taken on during the winter. The firm's letter heading in early 1919 shows that the Yemeni agencies — Hodeida and Mokha — had been re-opened, and that, on the African side, the firm was established in Djibouti, Zeila, Bulhar, Berbera, Addis Abeba, Diredawa, Harrar, Mogadiscio, Merca, Brava, Itala, …
Arabian Airways
In the early thirties a journey from Aden to the Hadhramaut was quite an undertaking. The first stage was to get to Mukalla. Those reluctant to face the discomfort and uncertainties of travel by dhow must wait for one of the rare steamers. The voyage by steamer, in the most favourable weather conditions, took over thirty hours. From Mukalla on to Shibam, Seiyun or Tarim the journey was by mule or camel. Travel to other destinations was also time-…
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