Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
Sudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896-1898
Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
ISBN: 978-1-84701-042-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Exposes the 'blind spot' in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain's empire, through a re-telling of one of the best known episodes in British imperial military history.
The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army, the menwho fought in all the battles, served as interpreters, military recruiters, and ethnic ambassadors throughout the campaign, and who were the real victors at the Battle of Omdurman. Making use of both published contemporary accounts and unpublished primary sources located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces.
Ronald M. Lamothe is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Introduction: 'Ali Jifun's Fashoda Homecoming
"The Backbone of the Egyptian Army"
"Servants of His Highness the Khedive"
"Flavour of Domesticity"
" Brotherhood that Binds the Brave"
"Tea with the Khalifa"
Epilogue: Mutiny at Omdurman
