Darfur's sorrow : a history of destruction and genocide / M.W. Daly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daly, M. W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003-.

Sudan.

History.

Darfur (Sudan)--Ethnic relations.

Darfur (Sudan).

Darfur (Sudan)--History.

Genocide--Sudan--Darfur.

Genocide.

Sudan--Darfur.

Physical Description:

xix, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Darfur is a region set apart: huge, remote, and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorized by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid, which has created what the United Nations has called "the world's worst humanitarian disaster." As M. W. Daly, distinguished historian and long-term observer of the Sudan, explains, the roots of the crisis lie deep in Darfur's past. Tracing the story to the origins of the Fur state in the seventeenth century, through imperial expansion, revolution, and finally Darfur's annexation by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he shows how years of neglect left the region unprepared for independence. The final chapters focus on the years thereafter, as successive governments failed to rise to the challenges of institution building and economic and political administration, and the region descended into chaos. This is a complex and often harrowing story, told with compassion, insight, and a strong sense of place.

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Chronology of events

Maps

The "abode of the blacks"

Lords of mountain and savanna: the origins and history of the Fur State to 1874

The ends of the Turkish world

Darfur at the end of time: the Mahdiyya, 1885-1898

Between an anvil and a hammer: the reign of Ali Dinar, 1898-1916

"Closed district": Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule in Darfur, 1916-1939

Unequal struggles, 1939-1955

Colonial legacies and Sudanese rule, 1956-1969

Darfur and "the May Regime", 1969-1985

Third time unlucky: Darfur and the restoration of parliamentary rule

The State of Jihad

The destruction of Darfur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index.

ISBN:

9780521876186

0521876184

9780521699624

0521699622

OCLC:

76820935

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