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Darfur - Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and local politics, 1916-1956 (Hardcover)
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Darfur - Colonial violence, Sultanic legacies and local politics, 1916-1956 (Hardcover)
Series: Eastern Africa Series
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The first in-depth account of Darfur's history during the
Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (from 1916). This work engages with a
fundamental question in the study of African history and politics:
to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of
local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship
on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has
suggested that colonial governance here represented either
straightforward continuity or utterly transformative change from
the region's deep history of independent statehoodunder the Darfur
Sultanate. This book argues that neither view is adequate: it shows
that British rule bequeathed a culture of governance to Darfur
which often rested on state coercion and violence, but which was
also influencedby enduring local conceptions of the relationship
between ruler and ruled, and the agendas of local actors. The state
was perceived as a resource as well as a threat by local peoples.
Although the British did introduce significant changes to the
character of governance in Darfur, local populations negotiated the
significance of these innovations, challenging the authority of
state-appointed chiefs, defying official attempts to police the
boundaries ofethnic territories, and competing for the resources of
political support and development that the state represented. Even
the violence of the state was shaped and channelled by the
initiative of local elites. Finally, the authorsuggests that
contemporary conflict and politics in the region must be understood
in the context of this deeper history of interaction between state
and local agendas in shaping everyday realities of power and
governance. Chris Vaughan is Lecturer in African History at
Liverpool John Moores University. Previously, he taught at the
Universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool and Edinburgh. His
articles have appeared in the Journal of African Historyand the
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He is co-editor (with
Lotje De Vries and Mareike Schomerus) of The Borderlands of South
Sudan.
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