Empire and the Nuer - Sources on the Pacification of the Southern Sudan, 1898-1930

Informationen zum Autor Douglas H. Johnson is an historian specialising in the history of South Sudan and North East Africa. He is a former academic publisher, archivist, relief worker, and International Expert on the Abyei Boundaries Commission. He has written, edited and co-edited eleven volumes, including Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Currently he is working with the Rift Valley Institute, of which he is a fellow, on the restoration of the South Sudan National Archive. Klappentext Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants collected here cover significant events from 1898 to 1930. Zusammenfassung Made famous through Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, the Nuer are the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. They were the object of Britain's last pacification campaign in Africa. The contemporary administrative reports and more recent interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants collected here cover significant events from 1898 to 1930.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas H. (Independent Scholar Johnson
• Assisted by: Douglas H. Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2016
• EAN: 9780197265888
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726588-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sudan, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / North, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, African History