
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
(1934),
albeit an official apologia, is still useful on that of the early
1930s. Neither of Stone's monographs on economic development
before 1914 has been effectively published. For the Gezira scheme,
Gaitskell is still indispensable, but much remains to be done on the
political 'pre-history' of the scheme and on relations between the
Plantations Syndicate and the government. An economic history
of the scheme,
by
'Abd al-Wahhab 'Abd al-Rahlm, remains
unpublished, as does the work of Omar Mohamed Osman Abdou
on the economic significance
of
transport, not covered by Hill
(1965).
On the crucial transition from slave labour to wage labour,
see McLoughlin, Warburg,
and a
thesis
by
Hargey;
on
immigration from western Africa, see Isam Hassoun, Balamoan
and, with special reference
to
the bajj, Birks (p. 903). Barbour
surveys recent population shifts. There is
a
scanty literature on
public health and the history
of
disease: see Squires, Ahmed
Bayoumi, Maurice, and an essay by Hartwig on relapsing fever
in Hartwig and Patterson (p. 892).
The history
of
the southern Sudan under the Condominium
has too often been written either without much reference to the
general policies and problems (especially the financial problems)
of the administration; or else by historians whose primary interest
is in the north and who are rather out of their depth in the south.
Warburg (1971), while authoritative for the north, is perfunctory
and not always reliable
on the
south, and the impressionistic
studies of Beshir (1968) and Muddathir 'Abd al-Rahlm (1968) are
valuable mainly
for
their rich documentary appendices. More
recently, Collins (1983) has combined
a
detailed and intimate
knowledge of the southern terrain and its history with an ability
to
see the
south
and its
problems through
the
eyes
—
often
negative, or merely negligent
—
of the Khartoum policy-makers.
Sanderson and Sanderson illustrate the importance of constraints
emanating from the north for educational and religious policies
in the south; they also examine
in
detail the role
of
Christian
missions. Sevier's thesis has some useful material on the inter-war
period but an over-rigid thematic arrangement tends to obscure
the evolution of policy. Testimonies by officials include Comyn,
Stigand and Fergusson; for other contemporary testimonies, see
Santandrea (a missionary), Darley and Wyndham.
For early southern resistance and the disastrous British reaction
to it, see, besides Collins (i97i)> Cudsi, and G. N. Sanderson in
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