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administration
administrative staff
anglo egyptian sudan
arab world
Author_Heather J. Sharkey
autocracy
border issues
british empire
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clerks
colonial legacy
colonial state
colonialism
decolonization
egyptian sudan
empire
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government administration
history
imperial power
india
literature
medics
memoirs
middle east
muslim heritage
nation state
nationalism
poetry
politics
post colonialism
postcolonial nation
republic of sudan
sudan
sudanese arabic
teachers
technicians
Product details
- ISBN 9780520235595
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Mar 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Histories written in the aftermath of empire have often featured conquerors and peasant rebels but have said little about the vast staffs of locally recruited clerks, technicians, teachers, and medics who made colonialism work day-to-day. Even as these workers maintained the colonial state, they dreamed of displacing imperial power. This book examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state. Relying on a rich cache of Sudanese Arabic literary sources, including poetry, essays, and memoirs, as well as on colonial documents and photographs, this perceptive study examines colonialism from the viewpoint of those who lived and worked in its midst. By integrating the case of Sudan with material on other countries, particularly India, Sharkey gives her book broad comparative appeal. She shows that colonial legacies--such as inflexible borders, atomized multi-ethnic populations, and autocratic governing structures--have persisted, hobbling postcolonial nation-states.
Thus countries like Sudan are still living with colonialism, struggling to achieve consensus and stability within borders that a fallen empire has left behind.
Heather J. Sharkey is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
