Peter P Garretson

A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist (eBook, PDF)

The Life and Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

Hakim Wärqenäh Eshäté (Dr Charles Martin), born into a family of Ethiopian aristocrats but adopted by a British officer and raised in India, played a significant role in influencing medicine, education and economic development in Ethiopia throughout the first half of the 20th century.

This is the first full biography of Hakim Wärqenäh Eshäté, or Dr Charles Martin (1865-1952), who was Ethiopia's first western trained physician as well as a statesman, administrator, diplomat, author and a major progressiveforce in modern Ethiopian history. Yet he had overlapping identities as a world citizen, citizen of the British empire and Ethiopian nationalist, living in many different countries but never wholly belonging in any one. The childof Ethiopian aristocrats, he was found on the battlefield of Magdala by a British officer and raised and educated in India. First employed in the Indian civil service he subsequently served as a physician to three Ethiopian emperors. The key turning point in his life came with his marriage to an Ethiopian aristocrat, closely related to two Empresses, a marriage which greatly enhanced his influence at court.
This is as much a family biography as hisbiography, and focuses especially on his work as an educator, governor of a model province and, finally, the climax of his career when, as Ethiopian ambassador to England, he was a key international figure in protesting the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and mobilizing world opinion against Italy and for Ethiopia. He became a spokesman for the African diaspora during the 1930s and an Ethiopian elder statesman in the 1940s, and his extended family (and many of those he mentored) had an impact on modern Ethiopian history. The biography is based on Charles Martin's unpublished diary and autobiography and archival research in Ethiopia and Europe.

Peter Garretson was educated in Ethiopia (the Sandford School), London (Westminster School and SOAS) and the United States (Haverford College). He has taught at the University of Khartoum, Swarthmore and Florida State University, where he is now Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846159688
• Artikelnr.: 56164133

Autorenporträt

Peter P. Garretson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Youth & Education: Ethiopia, India & Burma (1865
1896) Return to Ethiopia (1896
1901) Campaigning in the Ogaden & Return to Burma (1901
1907) Transitions in Life: From Burma to England to Ethiopia (1907
1910) A Man of Substance in Ethiopia & Burma: Marriage & Political Influence (1910
1919) Return of a Progressive to Addis Ababa (1919
1924) An Increased Pace of Modernization (1924
1930) International Diplomacy, Education & Recruitment: Wärqenäh in Britain, the USA & India (1927
1931) Governor of a Model Province: Chärchär (1930
1935) Ethiopian Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1935
1936) London & India: "So the Whole Thing is Finished" (1936
1942) Ethiopia: Family & Elder Statesman (1942
1952) Conclusion