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Gallas --- Oromo (African people)

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Passionate about designing buildings and neighborhoods that quietly transform the urban environment, Torti Gallas is committed to improving cities, towns, and distressed communities throughout the United States and around the world. This fully illustrated book shows how they have combined the disciplines of architecture, planning, and urban design into a single practice, creating housing and mixed-use buildings that bring catalytic change to urban neighborhoods: the mixed-use apartment buildings, rowhouses, and single-family homes that comprise the fabric of a city. Their work hearkens back to a tradition that, before World War II, created some of the country's finest neighborhoods, including Forest Hill Gardens in Queens, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, and Russian Hill in San Francisco. Featuring 60 built projects, this book shows how Torti Gallas is dedicated to raising the level of this architecture to a new high.

Architecture --- Architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture, Modern --- Torti Gallas + Partners

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Child slaves --- Slave trade --- Oromo (African people) --- Gala (African people) --- Galla (African people) --- Gallas --- Orma (African people) --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- Slave children --- Slaves --- History. --- Enslaved persons --- Enslaved children

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Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society.

Oromo (African People) --- Gala (African people) --- Galla (African people) --- Gallas --- Orma (African people) --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- History. --- Ethiopia --- African nation-building. --- Ethiopian history. --- Northern Oromo. --- Other Abyssinians. --- cultural contribution. --- cultural diversity. --- indigenous identity. --- modern Ethiopia. --- political integration.

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This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's development, rebutting the common depiction of the Oromo as no more than a destructive force and demonstrating their significant role in shaping the course of Ethiopian history. Tracing the early history of the Oromo as part of the Cushitic language speaking family of peoples, it establishes that they were neither foreigners nor newcomers to Ethiopia, but have been an integral part of the indigenous population since at least the first half of the 14th century. The massive sixteenth-century pastoral Oromo population movement revolutionized relations between the Christians and the Oromo. During the long process of assimilation that followed, with periods of both war and peace in central and southern Ethiopia, Oromo society was able to absorb and assimilate Cushitic and Semitic language speakers and Oromize them through the open, democratic and egalitarian 'Gada' system; while in northern Ethiopia the Oromo themselves were absorbed into Christian Amhara society. Mohammed Hassen is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Georgia State University. His books include 'The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570 to 1860' (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He is a Contributing Editor of 'The Journal of Oromo Studies' and 'The Horn of Africa' journal.

Ethiopia --- History --- Oromo (African people) --- History. --- Gala (African people) --- Galla (African people) --- Gallas --- Orma (African people) --- Cushites --- Ethnology --- 14th century. --- 16th century. --- African Religion. --- African Studies. --- African history. --- Christian Amhara. --- Christianity. --- Cushitic language. --- Democracy. --- Early Modern History. --- Ethiopia. --- Ethiopian history. --- Gada. --- History of Religion. --- Oromo. --- Politics. --- Semitic language.