Isbn: 9781107061149 - water, civilization, and power in sudan: the political economy of military-islamist state building (african studies, 131, band 131) (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 240 29 Illus., Maps.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan offers an alternative account of how water policy, violence, and economic modernisation are linked. Series: African Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 29 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 646. . 2015. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Buch. Zustand: New. Based on years of unique access to Islamists, generals, and business elites, Harry Verhoeven tells the story of Africa s most ambitious state-building project in the modern era and how Sudan s gamble to instrumentalise water to consolidate power is linked t.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new politics, economic liberalisation, an Islamic revival, and a U-turn in foreign relations - and mixed militant conservatism with social engineering: a vision of authoritarian modernisation. Water and agricultural policy have been central to this state-building project. Going beyond the conventional lenses of famine, 'water wars' or the oil resource curse, Harry Verhoeven links environmental factors, development, and political power. Based on years of unique access to the Islamists, generals, and business elites at the core of the Al-Ingaz Revolution, Verhoeven tells the story of one of Africa's most ambitious state-building projects in the modern era - and how its gamble to instrumentalise water and agriculture to consolidate power is linked to twenty-first-century globalisation, Islamist ideology, and intensifying geopolitics of the Nile. …