R A Caulk
Biographic Data
| ID | 127192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R A Caulk |
| GIVEN NAMES | R A |
| FAMILY NAME | Caulk |
| SIGNATURE | CAULK R A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Firearms and Princely Power in Ethiopia in the Nineteenth Century
Muskets and cannon had been used in Ethiopia since the later stages of the Gragn wars in the early 1540s. Tekle Haymanot&s;s men had suffered a terrible defeat in January 1888 at the hands of a Mahdist expeditionary force which may have been the largest army to invade Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. The little relevance of firearms to the internal struggle for power is seen in the continued subordination of north-eastern Ethiopia to rulers re…
The Abyssinian Difficulty
Armies as Predators
In Addis Ababa's pre-World War II Amharic newspaper, Light and Peace (Birhani-na Selam), a contributor wrote of a conversation on a train trip from Dire Dawa with a heavy drinking retainer of the regent Ras Teferi (to become emperor as Hayle Sillase in 1930). The gentlemen remembered the good old days before the railway had been finished when the ras, then simply governor of Harer province, traveled with his retinue in leisurely state to the capi…
Harär Town and its Neighbours in the Nineteenth Century
The survival of the Semitic-speaking, Muslim townsmen of Harär in the midst of animist Oromo (Galla) who migrated into the eastern highlands of modern Ethiopia in the late sixteenth century and settled as pastoralists is something of an anomaly, at least in the eastern Rift. Other pre-migration settlements of Muslim farmer-traders, presumably also speaking a southern Semitic language, appear to have been submerged and displaced. The Haräri's good…
A Chronology of Menilek II of Ethiopia, 1844-1913, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1889-1913
Harär Town and its Neighbours in the Nineteenth Century
The survival of the Semitic-speaking, Muslim townsmen of Harär in the midst of animist Oromo (Galla) who migrated into the eastern highlands of modern Ethiopia in the late sixteenth century and settled as pastoralists is something of an anomaly, at least in the eastern Rift. Other pre-migration settlements of Muslim farmer-traders, presumably also speaking a southern Semitic language, appear to have been submerged and displaced. The Haräri's good…
Armies as Predators
In Addis Ababa's pre-World War II Amharic newspaper, Light and Peace (Birhani-na Selam), a contributor wrote of a conversation on a train trip from Dire Dawa with a heavy drinking retainer of the regent Ras Teferi (to become emperor as Hayle Sillase in 1930). The gentlemen remembered the good old days before the railway had been finished when the ras, then simply governor of Harer province, traveled with his retinue in leisurely state to the capi…
Harär Town and its Neighbours in the Nineteenth Century
The survival of the Semitic-speaking, Muslim townsmen of Harär in the midst of animist Oromo (Galla) who migrated into the eastern highlands of modern Ethiopia in the late sixteenth century and settled as pastoralists is something of an anomaly, at least in the eastern Rift. Other pre-migration settlements of Muslim farmer-traders, presumably also speaking a southern Semitic language, appear to have been submerged and displaced. The Haräri's good…
A Chronology of Menilek II of Ethiopia, 1844-1913, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1889-1913
Armies as Predators
In Addis Ababa's pre-World War II Amharic newspaper, Light and Peace (Birhani-na Selam), a contributor wrote of a conversation on a train trip from Dire Dawa with a heavy drinking retainer of the regent Ras Teferi (to become emperor as Hayle Sillase in 1930). The gentlemen remembered the good old days before the railway had been finished when the ras, then simply governor of Harer province, traveled with his retinue in leisurely state to the capi…
The Abyssinian Difficulty
Firearms and Princely Power in Ethiopia in the Nineteenth Century
Muskets and cannon had been used in Ethiopia since the later stages of the Gragn wars in the early 1540s. Tekle Haymanot&s;s men had suffered a terrible defeat in January 1888 at the hands of a Mahdist expeditionary force which may have been the largest army to invade Ethiopia in the nineteenth century. The little relevance of firearms to the internal struggle for power is seen in the continued subordination of north-eastern Ethiopia to rulers re…
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