History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day - Couverture souple

Holt, P. M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0297776355 ISBN 13 : 9780297776352

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

The last decade has witnessed momentous events in the history of the Sudan. Having harboured Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, the Sudanese government was directly affected by changes in US foreign policy after the terrorist attacks of September 2001. The long-running humanitarian crisis in Darfur and the enduring North-South civil war have attracted the world’s attention, but the negotiated end to the war  opened up the prospect of radical political and constitutional change, while the emergence of the Sudan as a major oil producer and its partnership with China have created possibilities until recently hardly realised.

 

All of these and other recent events are examined in this new edition of A History of the Sudan - still the only comprehensive history of Africa’s largest country. The book has been fully revised and updated, with expanded coverage of recent events and entirely new sections on the Darfur crisis, the last years of the civil war and changes to the country’s domestic politics and international relations.

 

Written by two of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, the 6th edition of A History of the Sudan provides the historical background essential for a proper understanding of these complex developments, and ensures that this book will remain the definitive introduction to the Sudan for students, scholars and the general reader.

 

 

 

The late P.M. Holt was Professor of the History of the Near & Middle East in the University of London, whose many important works on Sudanese history included most notably The Mahdist State in the Sudan (Oxford, 2nd edition 1970)

 

M.W. Daly is the author of some fifteen books on the history of the Sudan, including most recently Darfur’s Sorrow: The forgotten history of a humanitarian disaster (2nd edition 2010).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Here is a new edition of well-known introductory history of the Sudan, which takes events of this troubled region up to 1998. This extended coverage considers the last years of Jaafar Nimeiri's government to his fall from power in 1985; the subsequent transitional military regime; the return to parliamentary rule, and the current attempts to establish an Islamic state under a renewed military regime. More than a political narrative, this book shows how the modern Sudan has been shaped by three key elements in its history: the influence of the Ottoman Empire; the impact of British domination; and, above all else, the enduring indigenous tradition of the region, produced by the intermingling of its African and Arab Muslim inheritance.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0297776355
• ISBN 13: 9780297776352
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 250