This volume addresses economic change, regional politics and Islamisation in Kordofan, a large province in the Sudan. Kordofan's history is characterised by res

The book will be of interest to scholars of Africa and Islam because of its novel focus on regional institutions and their relation to state structures.

Examining the area of Nubia and Sudan from the prehistoric to the nineteenth century AD, this is an exceptional study of the area's archaeology and history. The

"This book provides wide-ranging theoretical perspectives and rich ethnographic material to analyze the state-society-development nexus in Sudan. Overall, it pr

This book combines important and often historic photographs with text to illustrate the value of photographs for the study of modern African history in general