Researches into the physical history of mankind by James Cowles Prichard

By James Cowles Prichard

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Like Walter Raleigh's first attempts to describe the New World's oxymoranic "abundant wasteland," travelers to Ankober wrote unabashedly subjective first-person narratives. 15 The narrative voices of Ethiopia's observers changed dramatically over the course of the 1800-1990 period. Early nineteenth-century travelers wrote consciously subjective, first-person narratives, choosing the literary mther than the scientific idiom. Ethiopia was for them an exotic, isolated kingdom; its agriculture was an organic part of society, polity, and history.

For loss of soil productivity, see Hans Humi, "Degradation and Conservation of the Soil Resource in the Ethiopian Highlands," paper presented at the First International Workshop on African Mountains and Highlands, Addis Ababa, 1986. 19. " 20. Christopher Clapham, Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (Cambridge, 1988), xi-xii. Clapham points out that the highlands contain 21 varieties of endemic montane nonforest birds and few montane forest birds. For two citations of the apocryphal 40 percent to 4 percent.

Oricultural shows and crop research. Agricultural research also took place under the auspices of the Istituto Coloniale Italiano, geographic societies, and, beginning officially in 1938, under the auspices of the Regio Istituto Agronomico per l' Africa Italiana in Florence. In the post-1941 period that institution's research continued, reorganized as the Istituto Agricolo Coloniale and later as the Istituto Agronomico per I'Oltremare. 24 The Cen23. Warren Vincent, "Economic Conditions in Ada Wereda, Ethiopia during the Cropping Season of 1975-76," unpublished paper, Michigan State University, 1977.

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