A History of Modern Sudan

by Robert O. Collins

• ISBN13: 9780521674959
• ISBN10: 0521674956
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Sudans modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between north and south, have exploded in Darfur. In his latest book, Robert Collins, a frequent visitor and veteran scholar of the region, traces Sudans history across two hundred years to show how many of the tragedies of today have been planted in its past. The story begins with the conquest of Muhammad Ali in 1821, and moves through the Anglo-Egyptian condominium to independence in 1956. It then focuses on Sudanese rule in the post-independence years when the fragile democracy established by the British collapsed under sectarian strife. It is these religious and ethnic divides, the author contends, in conjunction with failed leadership, which have prolonged and sustained the conflict in Sudan.

Table of Contents

The making of modern Sudan: the nineteenth century

The Anglo-Egyptian condominium

Parliamentary and military experiments in government, 1956-1969

The government of Ja'afar Numayri: the heroic years, 1969-1976

The government of Ja'Afar Numayri: the years of dismay and disintegration, 1976-1985

The TMC and third parliamentary government

The Islamist revolution: the Turabi years, 1989-1996

The Bashir years: beleaguered and defiant

War and peace in the southern Sudan

Disaster in Darfur

Epilogue

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