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Title: | Shadows in the grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956 |
Author: | Collins, Robert O. |
Year: | 1983 |
Pages: | 494 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | New Haven; London |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
ISBN: | 0300029225 |
Geographic terms: | Sudan Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism history 1900-1999 |
Abstract: | The political history of the Southern Sudan between 1918 and 1956, in which period the colonial British government tried to develop the foundations of a modern society. During British rule the Southern Sudan was essentially sealed off from the outside world and at the time of its independence in 1956 the country was a wilderness. The book is in the fourth volume in a series by the author about the history of the Southern Sudan, beginning in 1883. |