Includes bibliographies and index.

The end of the Nubian kingship in the Sudan, 1720-1762 / Jay Spaulding -- The paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Terence Walz -- Religion in a changing socio-political structure / Mohammad Said al-Gaddal -- Islamic rationales for the changing social roles of women in the western Sudan / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Town planning and development during the Condominium / S.R. Simpson -- The golden age of tropical medicine and its impact on the modernization of the Sudan / Alexander Cruikshank -- The ghost of Adam Smith / G.N. Sanderson -- Foretelling peace and war / Douglas H. Johnson -- The big ditch / Robert O. Collins -- Development in context / Francis Mading Deng -- The Sudan Archive, Durham, as a source for the study of modernization in the Sudan / L.E. Forbes.