South Sudan
eBook - ePub

South Sudan

A New History for a New Nation

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

South Sudan

A New History for a New Nation

About this book

Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation's diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome the legacy of decades of war to build a new economic, political, and national future.

Most recent studies of South Sudan's history have a foreshortened sense of the past, focusing on current political issues, the recently ended civil war, or the ongoing conflicts within the country and along its border with Sudan. This brief but substantial overview of South Sudan's longue durée, by one of the world's foremost experts on the region, answers the need for a current, accessible book on this important country.

Drawing on recent advances in the archaeology of the Nile Valley, new fieldwork as well as classic ethnography, and local and foreign archives, Johnson recovers South Sudan's place in African history and challenges the stereotypes imposed on its peoples.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Advance praise for South Sudan
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. 1. Introduction: “This Is Where We Came From”
  10. 2. South Sudan in the Nile Basin
  11. 3. Trees and Wandering Bulls
  12. 4. Trade and Empires, Tribal Zones and Deep Rurals
  13. 5. Dispersal and Diasporas
  14. 6. The Dual Colonialism of the Condominium
  15. 7. The Politics of Competing Nationalisms
  16. 8. Two Wars
  17. 9. Self-Determination in the Twenty-First Century
  18. 10. Legacies of War
  19. Notes
  20. Abbreviations and Glossary
  21. Works Cited
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Index