Aage Westenholz

"Jeg havde en Farm i Afrika ved Foden af Bjerget Ngong", skriver Karen Blixen i sit verdensberømte erindringsværk, men det passer ikke. Hun bestyrede kun en farm. Denne to-binds-udgivelse bringer nye breve, skrevet hovedsagelig af Karen Blixen og hendes morbror, Aage Westenholz. Han var hovedinvestor og bestyrelsesformand i det familieaktieselskab, der ejede farmen, og som investerede utrolige summer i et konstant urentabelt foretagende. Efter 17 års underskudsgivende drift og et gigantisk tab erklærede familieselskabet farmen konkurs. For første gang beskrives økonomien bag det afrikanske kaffeeventyr. I værkets bind II gives en lang og grundig virksomhedsøkonomisk redegørelse og analyse af Karen Coffee Company Ltd., skrevet af erhvervshistorikeren, professor, dr.phil. Per Boje. Heri bringes også Aage Westenholz' rejsedagbog fra 1921.

A primary source collection of the Akkadian and Sumerian texts housed at the University of Pennsylvania. Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia is the third and final volume of published cuneiform texts housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Presented in parallel transliteration, these 433 unique texts were excavated between 1889 and 1900 and include contemporary Sumerian literature and science. From temple administration documents to ration lists and votive items, this collection of primary materials provides insight into the lives of hundreds of men and women employed at the temple in the city of Ekur and sheds light on various ancient social relationships not otherwise described in previous sources.

This book contains the 'Akkadian Texts' -- i.e. texts written in the Akkadian Language or script ductus -- the Enlilemaba Texts and the Onion Archive -- all three distinct archives from Nippur in Babylonia from the time of Naram-Sin and Sharkalisharri (c. 2250-2175 BC). The texts in the Akkadian archive deal with Sharkalisharri's rebuilding of Ekur, the great Temple of Enlil at Nippur. The Enlilemaba texts are the business records of a family of private citizens, and are the earliest known examples of this type of documentation from Mesopotamia. The Onion archive records the local governor's cultivation and distribution of onions, and illustrates his relations with the Imperial Sargonic government. The book is the second volume in a planned series of three tomes, OSP I-III, publishing the Old Sumerian and Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia. It contains the archaeological records of the individual texts, a list of joins and a concordance of museum numbers; copies, transliterations and translations of the texts as