Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City

ISBN-13: 9780367299385 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Kenneth J. Perkins

Opis

This study examines the efforts of Port Sudan's builders and early administrators to tailor the urban environment to their own notions of the ideal colonial city–how it should look, how it should function, and how its human components should interact.

Spis treści

A Note on Sources -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Creating Colonial Cities -- 1904–1918 -- “An Ideal Site for a Town”: Putting “the Most Desirable People in the Most Desirable Plots” -- Harboring Doubts: The Utility of a New Port, the Status of Egypt, the Availability of Labor, and Other Early Problems -- 1919–1942 -- Port Sudan Between the Two World Wars -- The Crystallization of Disparity: District Commissioners, General Managers, “Trim Smug Villas…and Hideous Wooden Shacks” -- Working the Port: Merchants, Contractors, Beja Stevedores, and Yemeni Laborers -- Government Services in a City of Contrasts: Public Health, Public Works, Public Safety, and Public Education -- Looking Outward: Unwanted Pilgrims, Troublesome Italian Neighbors, and a Disruptive War -- 1943–1953 -- A Community in Flux: Social Problems, Labor Questions, and Political Issues in Post-War Port Sudan -- Epilogue -- Appendix

O autorze

Kenneth J. Perkins is professor of history at the University of South Carolina.