Darfur's sorrow: a history of destruction and genocide

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Chronology of events

Maps

The "abode of the blacks"

Lords of mountain and savanna: the origins and history of the Fur State to 1874

The ends of the Turkish world

Darfur at the end of time: the Mahdiyya, 1885-1898

Between an anvil and a hammer: the reign of Ali Dinar, 1898-1916

"Closed district": Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule in Darfur, 1916-1939

Unequal struggles, 1939-1955

Colonial legacies and Sudanese rule, 1956-1969

Darfur and "the May Regime", 1969-1985

Third time unlucky: Darfur and the restoration of parliamentary rule

The State of Jihad

The destruction of Darfur.