| Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies and Local Politics, 1916-1956 Contributor(s): Vaughan, Chris (Author) |
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ISBN: 184701111X ISBN-13: 9781847011114 Publisher: James Currey OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - East - History | Africa - General - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism |
| Dewey: 960 |
| LCCN: 2015490732 |
| Series: Eastern Africa |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.16 lbs) 246 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either straightforward continuity or utterly transformative change from the region's deep history of independent statehood under the Darfur Sultanate. This book argues that neither view is adequate: it shows that British rule bequeathed a culture of governance to Darfur which often rested on state coercion and violence, but which was also influenced by enduring local conceptions of the relationship between ruler and ruled, and the agendas of local actors.BR |