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South Sudan : a new history for a new nation / Douglas H. Johnson.
Author
Johnson, Douglas H. (Douglas Hamilton), 1949-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
224 pages : illustration, maps ; 18 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DT159.92 .J64 2016
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South Sudan
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History
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Sudan
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Politics and government
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South Sudan
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Politics and government
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Series
Ohio short histories of Africa
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Summary note
"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index.
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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ISBN
9780821422427 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0821422421 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016036414
OCLC
950445741
Other standard number
40026606319
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