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Egypt's African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon and the Creation of Equatoria
Dr Alice Moore-Harell
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, map & photos. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going northsouth conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to ... Read more
This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going northsouth conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845196417
SKU
V9781845196417
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99-50
About Dr Alice Moore-Harell
Dr Alice Moore-Harell is an independent researcher, after retiring from teaching at the Department of Islam and Middle East, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is the author of the well received Gordon and the Sudan: Prologue to the Mahdiyya 18771880 (Frank Cass, 2001).
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