ANNOUNCING !!!!! NEW BOOK ON SUDAN !!!!!


SUDAN'S BLOOD MEMORY THE LEGACY OF WAR, ETHNICITY AND SLAVERY IN SOUTH SUDAN


by Stephanie Beswick
Forthcoming at Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press, February 2004


ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SUDAN'S BLOOD MEMORY

"Sudan's Blood Memory is a work of enormous and lasting value. This will be an indispensable source, for generations to come, for all people interested in the history, the cultures, and the peoples of the southern Sudan."

--William Y. Adams, author of Herskovitz Prize-winning Nubia: Corridor to Africa

• Sudan's Blood Memory shows how modern-day Sudan has been haunted by the distant past. In it may be heard the voices of two hundred people of South Sudan, a region which according to some "has no history."
• Yet many societies worldwide, particularly those that have been non-literate, possess oral histories reaching back many centuries. These communities possess long memories, especially about wars and events of great trauma. This book labels such traditions "blood memories." The author draws upon blood memories and other sources to present a precolonial history of South Sudan.
• Beginning in the fourteenth century, Sudan's Blood Memory follows the Dinka, today the region's largest ethnic group, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles into their more recently adopted homelands in South Sudan.
• The book demonstrates how an "inner" history of fierce wars, ethnic struggles and ethnic expansion by the Dinka and others have shaped South Sudan as it is today.
• An external slave trade introduced by Muslim cattle nomads from West Africa, the Baggara, further modified the social, political and military culture of the region.
• The historical study proper ends at the dawning of the Egyptian colonial era in 1821. As an epilogue, however, the author demonstrates how stresses deeply rooted in South Sudan's precolonial experience have since come to play a critical role. For in modern times the region has become the scene of the world's longest civil war, a conflict that not only pits the South against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government, but has also engaged some groups against others within the South itself.
  
  
• Stephanie Beswick is an Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA.
  She was born in Khartoum, Sudan.

SUDAN'S BLOOD MEMORY is available in the United States and Canada at:

Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press
668 Mount Hope Avenue
Rochester,
New York 14520

Telephone: 585.275.0419
Fax: 585.271.8778
Email: boydell@boydellusa.net
Website: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com


SUDAN'S BLOOD MEMORY is available in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world at:

Boydell & Brewer
P.O. Box 9
Woodbridge,
Suffolk IP12 3DF
United Kingdom

Telephone: 01394-412900
Fax: 01394-411477
Email: boydell@boydell.co.uk
Website: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com


Orders can now be placed securely online at:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/sous.htm
When ordering by phone, fax or online please quote this reference number:

$03073

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Revised 6 SEPTEMBER 2003 @Stephanie Beswick, 2003