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Sylvia Pankhurst : counsel for Ethiopia : a biographical essay on Ethiopian, anti-fascist and anti-colonialist history, 1934-1960 / Richard Pankhurst.
Van Pelt Library HQ1595.P34 P37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pankhurst, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960.
- Pankhurst, E. Sylvia.
- Anti-imperialist movements--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936--Participation, British.
- Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936.
- History.
- Ethiopia--History--1889-1974.
- Ethiopia.
- Suffragists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Suffragists.
- Great Britain.
- Feminists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Hollywood [Calif.] : Tsehai Publishers and Distributors, [2003]
- Summary:
- Sylvia Pankhurst, the former British Suffragette, devoted the last forty years of her life to Anti-Fascism and support for Ethiopia, for many centuries Africa's principal independent state. She responded to Mussolini's invasion of the country in 1935 by founding a weekly newspaper New Times and Ethiopia News, which she was to edit for twenty years. She protested against the Fascist use of poison-gas in Ethiopia, and published news of the Ethiopian patriot resistance. Her paper condemned Britain's "appeasement" of the Axis Dictators, and supported the Republican Government in the Spanish Civil War. After Mussolini's entry into the European War, on the side of Nazi Germany, she agitated against the return to Italy of her African colonies. Ever against colonialism, she clashed with the British Government in demanding the full restoration of Ethiopian independence, and advocated the "reunion" of the former Italian colony of Eritrea with Ethiopia. She raised funds for Ethiopia's first teaching hospital, and wrote extensively on Ethiopian art and culture. Having moved to Addis Ababa in 1956, with her son, the author, she founded a monthly journal, Ethiopia Observer, on many aspects of Ethiopian life and development. She died in 1960, and was buried with the Ethiopian Patriots, in front of Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, in the presence of the Emperor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0972317228
- 9780972317221
- 0972317236
- 9780972317238
- OCLC:
- 52992606
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