White Nile, black blood : war, leadership, and ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala / edited by Jay Spaulding & Stephanie Beswick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spaulding, Jay.

Beswick, Stephanie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations.

History.

Sudan--History--19th century.

Sudan.

Sudan--History--20th century.

Sudan--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 336 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, [2000]

Summary:

This pioneering volume introduces and defines a new realm of scholarly investigation. Over the course of a half-century of independence the former Anglo-Egyptian Sudan has been torn by extended periods of warfare, during which the southern Sudan, roughly defined by the basin of the White Nile, has acquired an ever-greater sense of separate identity. During the same interval the Southern Sudan has been drawn increasingly into a web of diplomatic and geopolitical ties with neighboring lands, with regional powers such as Egypt, Israel and the oil states, and occasionally with major international powers and interests.

The stakes of the conflict in Southern Sudan rise with the passage of each decade. The present volume offers studies by leading African, European and American scholars of and engaged participants in the experience of Southern Sudan. The studies are grounded in an impressive array of disciplinary expertise including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, history, political and military science, religion, cultural Studies, journalism and development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1569020981

156902099X

OCLC:

39875145