Darfur's Sorrow

A History of Destruction and Genocide
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-521-69962-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 525 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daly, M.W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The 'Abode of the Blacks'; 2. Lords of mountain and Savanna: the origins and history of the Fur State to 1874; 3. The ends of the Turkish World; 4. Darfur at the end of time: the Mahdiyya, 1885–1898; 5. Between an anvil and a hammer: the reign of All Dinar, 1898–1916; 6. 'Closed district': Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule in Darfur, 1916–1939; 7. Unequal struggles, 1939–1955; 8. Colonial legacies and Sudanese rule, 1956–1969; 9. Darfur and 'The May Regime,' 1969–1985; 10. Third time unlucky: Darfur and the restoration of Parliamentary Rule; 11. The state of Jihad; 12. The destruction of Darfur.

Über Autor(innen)

Daly, M.W.
M. W. Daly is the author of many books and articles on the history of the modern Middle East and Northeast Africa, including Imperial Sudan: the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1934–1956 (1991), and, with P.M. Holt, A history of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day, now in its fifth edition. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge History of Egypt, and has contributed over a hundred articles and reviews to scholarly journals.