Bibliograph

South Sudan, a new history for a new nation, Douglas H. Johnson

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South Sudan, a new history for a new nation, Douglas H. Johnson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

South Sudan

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

950445741

Responsibility statement

Douglas H. Johnson

Series statement

Ohio short histories of Africa

Sub title

a new history for a new nation

Summary

"Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and associated with slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. Its diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome decades of war to build a new future. Most recent studies of South Sudan have a foreshortened sense of the past, focusing on recent civil wars and ongoing conflicts. This brief but substantial overview of South Sudan's longue durée, by one of the world's foremost experts on the region, rights that imbalance. Drawing on recent advances in the archaeology of the Nile Valley, archives, and new fieldwork and ethnography, Johnson recovers South Sudan's place in African history and challenges the stereotypes imposed on its peoples."--Page 4 of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction : "this is where we came from" -- South Sudan in the Nile Basin -- Trees and wandering bulls -- Trade and empires, tribal zones and deep rurals -- Dispersal and diasporas -- The dual colonialism of the condominium -- The politics of competing nationalisms -- Two wars -- Self-determination in the twenty-first century -- Legacies of war

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