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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kramer, Robert S. (1956-....)
Lobban, Richard (1943-....)
Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (1945-....)
Titre(s) : Historical dictionary of the Sudan [Texte imprimé] / Robert S. Kramer, Richard A. Lobban, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
Édition : 4th ed
Publication : Lanham (Md.) : Scarecrow Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (LXXIII- 546 pages) : maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Historical dictionaries of Africa
Lien à la collection : African historical dictionaries
Comprend : Maps ; Acronyms and abbreviations ; Chronology ; Current Sudan factfile ; Ethno-linguistic
groups in or adjoining the Sudan ; Sultans ; 18th- and 19th-century administrators
; 1890 Agreement for the administration of the Sudan ; Political structure and administration
; Educational institutions.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-543)
The Republic of the Sudan was long the largest country in Africa and, according to
the general consensus, also one of the least successful in many ways. This was not
entirely its fault since it lay along the fault line between Muslim and Christian
Africa and between the Nile Valley civilizations and African Sudanic cultures. This
partly explains the long and bloody warfare waged by the Southerners to achieve independence,
which they did in July 2011. So this hefty book actually covers not one but two states.
This fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Sudan does so, first, through
a lengthy and detailed chronology tracing its relatively few successes and numerous
failures. The introductory essay does an admirable job of putting it all in perspective.
But the most informative part is the dictionary, with now over 700 entries for this
fourth edition. They deal with important personalities, politics, the economy, society,
culture, religion and inevitably the civil war. There are also appendixes and an extensive
bibliography
Sujet(s) : Soudan -- Histoire -- Dictionnaires anglais
Indice(s) Dewey :
962.400 3 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Soudan - Dictionnaires et encyclopédies
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780810861800 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0810861801 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780810879409 (ebook). - ISBN 0810879409 (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438797851
Notice n° :
FRBNF43879785
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