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Auteur(s) : Moore-Harell, Alice (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Egypt's African empire [Texte imprimé] : Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon & the creation of Equatoria / Alice Moore-Harell
Publication : Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2010
Description matérielle : xi, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Comprend : PART I. EGYPT AND THE WHITE NILE: The quest of the River's source ; Egypt's southern
expansion ; PART II. CONQUEST AND ANNEXATION. SAMUEL BAKER'S EXPEDITION: The treacherous
Nile ; The march to Masindi ; Resistance and cooperation: the natives and the slave
traders ; PART III. THE CREATION OF A NEW EGYPTIAN PROVINCE. CHARLES GORDON'S EXPEDITION:
Samuel Baker's departure and Charles Gordon's arrival ; The route to Central Africa
; Military stations on the White Nile ; The great lakes ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria,
located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published
on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior
of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going north-south conflict
in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's
aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at
Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to suppress
the lucrative slave trade in the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, and to this end the new province
was to be under direct control of Cairo and not the authorities in Khartoum. The two
conquering expeditions of Equatoria were led by Britons, Samuel Baker and Charles
Gordon (later Governor-General of the Sudan). With them were other Europeans, Americans,
Sudanese and Egyptians. Baker, Gordon and some of the others left detailed accounts
of their experience in the region. All of which contribute to our knowledge not only
of the difficulties involved in the annexation of a region thousands of kilometres
from Cairo, but also geographical data and a record of the complex human relations
that developed between the men involved in the expeditions, and the creation of the
new province. Official documents from the Egyptian state archive, Dar al-Wathaiq,
provide detailed accounts of the politics of the annexation of Equatoria, and these
accounts are discussed in their historical context."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Baker, Samuel White (1821-1893)
Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)
Équatoria (Soudan du Sud) -- Histoire
Égypte -- 1863-1879 (Ismā´īl)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781845193874 (h/c) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1845193873 (h/c) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43655608k
Notice n° :
FRBNF43655608
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