South Sudan : a new history for a new nation /
Johnson, Douglas H. 1949-
South Sudan : a new history for a new nation / Douglas H. Johnson. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (224 pages ): illustration, maps. - Ohio short histories of Africa .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : "this is where we came from" -- South Sudan in the Nile Basin -- Trees and wandering bulls -- Trade and empires, tribal zones and deep rurals -- Dispersal and diasporas -- The dual colonialism of the condominium -- The politics of competing nationalisms -- Two wars -- Self-determination in the twenty-first century -- Legacies of war.
"Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and associated with slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. Its diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome decades of war to build a new future. Most recent studies of South Sudan have a foreshortened sense of the past, focusing on recent civil wars and ongoing conflicts. This brief but substantial overview of South Sudan's longue durée, by one of the world's foremost experts on the region, rights that imbalance. Drawing on recent advances in the archaeology of the Nile Valley, archives, and new fieldwork and ethnography, Johnson recovers South Sudan's place in African history and challenges the stereotypes imposed on its peoples."--Page 4 of cover.
9780821445846
Electronic Books.
DT159 / .S688 2016
South Sudan : a new history for a new nation / Douglas H. Johnson. - Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (224 pages ): illustration, maps. - Ohio short histories of Africa .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : "this is where we came from" -- South Sudan in the Nile Basin -- Trees and wandering bulls -- Trade and empires, tribal zones and deep rurals -- Dispersal and diasporas -- The dual colonialism of the condominium -- The politics of competing nationalisms -- Two wars -- Self-determination in the twenty-first century -- Legacies of war.
"Africa's newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and associated with slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. Its diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome decades of war to build a new future. Most recent studies of South Sudan have a foreshortened sense of the past, focusing on recent civil wars and ongoing conflicts. This brief but substantial overview of South Sudan's longue durée, by one of the world's foremost experts on the region, rights that imbalance. Drawing on recent advances in the archaeology of the Nile Valley, archives, and new fieldwork and ethnography, Johnson recovers South Sudan's place in African history and challenges the stereotypes imposed on its peoples."--Page 4 of cover.
9780821445846
Electronic Books.
DT159 / .S688 2016