Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Histories written in the aftermath of empire have often featured conquerors and peasant rebels but have said little about the vast staffs of locally recruited clerks, technicians, teachers, and medics who made colonialism work day—to—day. Even as these workers maintained the colonial state, they dreamed of displacing imperial power. This book examines the history of the Anglo—Egyptian Sudan (1898—1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on ...