A history of modern Sudan / Robert O. Collins.
Collins, Robert O., 1933-2008.
2008
DT157.3 .C65 2008 (Mapit)
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Title A history of modern Sudan / Robert O. Collins.
Author Collins, Robert O., 1933-2008.
ISBN 9780521858205
0521858208
9780521674959 (pbk.)
0521674956 (pbk.)
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xxiii, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number DT157.3 .C65 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 962.404
Summary From the Publisher: Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and south, have exploded in Darfur. In his latest book, Robert Collins, a frequent visitor and veteran scholar of the region, traces Sudan's history across two hundred years to show how many of the tragedies of today have been planted in its past. The story begins with the conquest of Muhammad 'Ali in 1821, and moves through the Anglo-Egyptian condominium to independence in 1956. It then focuses on Sudanese rule in the post-independence years when the fragile democracy established by the British collapsed under sectarian strife. It is these religious and ethnic divides, the author contends, in conjunction with failed leadership, which have prolonged and sustained the conflict in Sudan.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1: Making of modern Sudan: the nineteenth century
2: Anglo-Egyptian condominium
3: Parliamentary and military experiments in government, 1956-1969
4: Government of Ja'afar Numayri: the heroic years, 1969-1976
5: Government of Ja'afar Numayri : the years of dismay and disintegration, 1976-1985
6: Transitional Military Council and third parliamentary government
7: Islamist revolution: the Turabi years, 1989-1996
8: Bashir years: beleaguered and defiant, 1996-2006
9: War and peace in southern Sudan
10: Disaster in Darfur.

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