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Slaves of Fortune
Ronald M. Lamothe
其他書名
Sudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896-1898
出版Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2011
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryHistory / Africa / GeneralHistory / Africa / EastHistory / Middle East / EgyptHistory / WorldHistory / Modern / 19th CenturyLiterary Collections / AfricanPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN18470104239781847010421
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=M7WaH203EMUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Exposes the 'blind spot' in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain's empire, through a re-telling of one of the best known episodes in British imperial military history.

The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army, the menwho fought in all the battles, served as interpreters, military recruiters, and ethnic ambassadors throughout the campaign, and who were the real victors at the Battle of Omdurman. Making use of both published contemporary accounts and unpublished primary sources located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces.

Ronald M. Lamothe is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst