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"This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyze multi-dimensional themes involved in social formation. This is a reader-friendly book with simple and lucid language and fulfils the pressing needs of students studying the paper on Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of Ancient and Medieval World at various universities across the world. The summary, keywords, and representative questions at the end of each chapter would assist in revision and better understanding of the issues dealt therein. A detailed chapter-end reference would enable and motivate the readers to engage in further studies for better understanding of the themes. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and academics in the area of history - ancient and medieval world history in particular and anthropology. It will also be an interesting read for general readers interested in knowing about the ancient and medieval world"--

Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam --. - State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission --. - Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power --. - Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project --. - The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development" --. - The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy --. - Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile --. - Conclusion: water, civilisation and power --. - Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies