Egypt's African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon & the Creation of Equatoria

by Alice Moore-Harell

Book Overview

This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going northsouth conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845196414
• ISBN13: 9781845196417
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"