Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide

by M. W. Daly

• ISBN13: 9780521699624
• ISBN10: 0521699622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Chronology of Events	p. xiii
Maps	p. xvii
The "Abode of the Blacks"	p. 1
Lords of Mountain and Savanna: The Origins and History of the Fur State to 1874	p. 16
The Ends of the Turkish World	p. 40
Darfur at the End of Time: The Mahdiyya, 1885-1898	p. 61
Between an Anvil and a Hammer: The Reign of Ali Dinar, 1898-1916	p. 87
"Closed District:" Anglo-Egyptian Colonial Rule in Darfur, 1916-1939	p. 115
Unequal Struggles, 1939-1955	p. 145
Colonial Legacies and Sudanese Rule, 1956-1969	p. 178
Darfur and "The May Regime," 1969-1985	p. 202
Third Time Unlucky: Darfur and the Restoration of Parliamentary Rule	p. 235
The State of Jihad	p. 248
The Destruction of Darfur	p. 270
Glossary	p. 317
Abbreviations in the Bibliography and Notes	p. 321
Notes	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 349
Index	p. 357
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