• ISBN13: 9780521876186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2007
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: USD 86.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 644 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Africa / General

Darfur is a region set apart, huge, remote and poverty stricken. Its people are today locked in conflict, terrorised by the lawless Arab militia known as janjawid. As M.W. Daly explains, the roots of the crisis lie deep in Darfur's past. Tracing the story from the origins of the Fur state in the seventeenth century to Darfur's annexation by the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he shows how years of neglect left the region unprepared for independence. This complex story is told with compassion, insight and a strong sense of place.

Daly, M. W.: - M. W. Daly is the author of many books and articles on the history of the modern Middle East and Northeast Africa, including Imperial Sudan: the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1934-1956 (1991), and, with P.M. Holt, A history of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day, now in its fifth edition. He is the General Editor of the Cambridge History of Egypt, and has contributed over a hundred articles and reviews to scholarly journals.