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By Heather J. Sharkey

ISBN-10: 0520235584

ISBN-13: 9780520235588

ISBN-10: 0520235592

ISBN-13: 9780520235595

Histories written within the aftermath of empire have frequently featured conquerors and peasant rebels yet have acknowledged little concerning the huge staffs of in the community recruited clerks, technicians, lecturers, and medics who made colonialism paintings daily. at the same time those employees maintained the colonial nation, they dreamed of displacing imperial energy. This publication examines the heritage of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that on the way to know how colonialism labored at the floor, affected neighborhood cultures, motivated the increase of nationalism, and formed the postcolonial geographical region.

Relying on a wealthy cache of Sudanese Arabic literary resources, together with poetry, essays, and memoirs, in addition to on colonial records and images, this perceptive examine examines colonialism from the point of view of these who lived and labored in its midst. by way of integrating the case of Sudan with fabric on different nations, fairly India, Sharkey provides her e-book wide comparative allure. She indicates that colonial legacies—such as rigid borders, atomized multi-ethnic populations, and autocratic governing structures—have persevered, hobbling postcolonial geographical regions. hence international locations like Sudan are nonetheless dwelling with colonialism, suffering to accomplish consensus and balance inside of borders fallen empire has left behind.

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