Aspirations and Contradictions in Shaping a Cosmopolitan Africa: Arturo Mezzedimi in Imperial Ethiopia
The life and career of Arturo Mezzedimi are the rare tale of an immigrant who conquered the main stage of his adoptive motherland. This paper reconstructs the trajectory of a young technical surveyor who became the semi-official architect of Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie. From his apprenti...
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Language: | deu |
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Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art
2016-12-01
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Series: | ABE Journal |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/abe/3159 |