Author: mollyd

Background Research Ethiopia First Italo-Ethiopian War 1869 Africa purchase small post of Assab (by Rubattino Shipping Company) from Eritreans (Ethiopian neighbor) came under government control in 1882 Ethiopia now cut off from the sea, skirmishes begin 1885 occupation of Massawa

“Prizing ‘Otherness’: A Short History of the Booker” by Graham Huggan Booker McConnel (Booker plc), now Booker Group = multinational agribusiness conglomerate employing over 20,000 people and generating annual revenue of $5 billion “…eager to downplay its ninteenth-century colonial past”

Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi “I would be lying if I said my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure. I suffered at her hands as a child, and any pain she subsequently endured appeared to me to be a

“Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today” by Richard Todd Introduction Main questions posed (p 1): “Why, in the last quarter of a century that has seen an exponential growth in the means and speed of communication,