Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies and Local Politics, 1916-1956

by Christopher Vaughan

The first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916).

This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184701111X
• ISBN13: 9781847011114
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"