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050 00 $aHD1699.S8$bV47 2015
082 04 $a333.911509624$223
100 1 $aVerhoeven, Harry,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWater, civilization, and power in Sudan :$bthe political economy of military-Islamist state-building /$cHarry Verhoeven, University of Oxford.
263 $a1503
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe African studies series ;$v131
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 00 $tPrologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam --$tState-building, the environment and the civilisation mission --$tHydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power --$tMashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project --$tThe hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development" --$tThe geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy --$tMilitary-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile --$tConclusion: water, civilisation and power --$tAppendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies.
650 0 $aWater resources development$xGovernment policy$zSudan.
650 0 $aWater-supply$xPolitical aspects$zSudan.
650 0 $aWater-supply$xPolitical aspects$zNile River.
650 0 $aBarrages$xPolitical aspects$zNile River.
650 0 $aDams$xPolitical aspects$zSudan.
650 0 $aEconomic development$xPolitical aspects$zSudan.
651 0 $aSudan$xPolitics and government$y1985-
650 0 $aIslam and politics$zSudan.
830 0 $aAfrican studies series (Cambridge, England) ;$v131.