Lords of the Red Sea: The History of a Red Sea Society from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

by Anthony D'Avray

Habab polity was, within living memory, one of a lord (Shumagalle) and serf (Tigre) relationship. In the 1870s/1880s, the Habab were subjected to pressures from the strong characters ruling in the surrounding lands: Ras Alula in the Hamasien, the Mahdist Emir Osman Digna, Colonel Kitchener, Governor of the Anglo-Egyptian enclave of Suakin, and in Massaua the Egyptians and later the Italians. In 1887, the Kantibai of the Habab signed a treaty of Protection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447037628
• ISBN13: 9783447037624
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"