- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- African studies ; 131
- Uniform Title
- African studies series ; 131.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.
- Source of Description (note)
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 March 2015).
- Contents
- Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam -- State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission -- Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power -- Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project -- The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development" -- The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy -- Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile -- Conclusion: water, civilisation and power -- Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies.
- ISBN
- 9781107447769
- 1107447763
- 9781316247969
- 1316247961
- OCLC
- 904506696
- Author
Verhoeven, Harry, author.
- Title
Water, civilisation and power in Sudan : the political economy of military-Islamist state building / Harry Verhoeven.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
African studies ; 131
African studies series ; 131.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index.
- Note
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 March 2015).
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Verhoeven, Harry, author. Water, civilization, and power in Sudan 9781107061149 (DLC) 2014043735 (OCoLC)891126427