the ambitions of the state 119Recommended Reading
Collins, Robert O. A History of Modern Sudan. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
Holt, Peter M. and Daly, Martin W. A History of the Sudan. Harlow: Longman,
2000.
Johnson, Douglas. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars. Oxford: James Currey,
2003 & revised edition 2011.
Warburg, Gabriel. Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya.
London: C. Hurst and Co, 2003.
Woodward, Peter. Sudan 1898–1989: The Unstable State. Boulder: Lynne Riener,
1990 and London: Lester Crook Academic Publishing, 1990.The Sudan Handbook, edited by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo and Jok Madut Jok. © 2011 Rift Valley Institute and contributors
(www.riftvalley.net).