Ethiopia: Where Two World Wars Began, and the Third Is Brewing, By Elias Wondimu
In the past, the dominant colonial narrative has been a blind spot in our assessment of global politics and its unfolding drama.
The new global players in the region are no longer France, Italy, Great Britain, and Germany. Today, China, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the U.S., Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Iran, South Korea, and the Gulf nations are all working hard to expand their spheres of influence. If our reading of current affairs and history is correct, what is starting in the Horn of Africa is yet another World War “Scramble for Africa.”
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He told Prof Bevir: I think the answer is no. We haven t really begun to have that debate in Scotland yet. The assumption is that Scotland would go back into the EU.
Scottish independence to cause massive headache to Sturgeon with major impediment (Image: YOUTUBE/Institute of European Studies )
Scottish independence: is likely to run into a major problem in the event she succeeds in separating Scotland from the UK. (Image: YOUTUBE/Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley)
Mr Little also reflected on whether it would be wise for Scotland to immediately attempt to rejoin the EU.
He continued: The other debate we need to have is, no matter how strongly you favour European Union membership, whether it would be wise for an independent Scotland, at least in the short term, to be a member of the EU.
Australia-ravenstein-1857
$4,000.00
Title
General Map of Australia and Tasmania or Van Diemen s Land shewing The British Colonies as divided into Counties.
1857 (dated)
1 : 4500000
Description
A rare and striking first-edition chromolithograph gold rush era map of Australia issued by Ernst Georg Ravenstein in 1857 - without a doubt one of the largest and most decorative commercial maps of Australia to appear in the 19th century. The map covers the entire continent with insets detailing nearby New Zealand, the colony of Victory, Sydney, the Mount Alexander gold region, Norfolk Island, and commercial maritime routes to and from Australian ports. The first edition, as here, features two dramatic vignettes: the wharves at Melbourne and a curious British Royal crest modified to honor Prince Albert. The map depicts Australia in the midst of a continent-wide population explosion driven by a series of gold rushes lasting over half a century. Lest there be any
Oskar is an author, historian, and Senior Research Associate in Politics at the University of East Anglia.
His latest book is The Ballad-Singer in Georgian and Victorian London, published by Cambridge University Press in February 2021. His next will be When London Cried: Life and Work on the Victorian Street, coming out with Duckworth Books in 2022.
Oskar s research focuses on song culture from the 16th–21st centuries, though he specialises most in the middle part of that period. His first book (2015) was on Napoleon and British Song; he has co-edited collections on Charles Dibdin (Oxford, 2018) and Music and Politics in Britain (Journal of British Studies, 2021). He contributes occasionally to the New Statesman and BBCTV and radio, has published two historical novels for children, and was historical advisor for the 2018 Amazon/ITV Vanity Fair.