Starvation and the State [electronic resource] : Famine, Slavery, and Power in Sudan, 1883-1956 /
Serels, Steven.author.
Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and indigenous elites who went on to control the Sudanese state at independence.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Glossary of Foreign Terms; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Famine and the Making of Sudan's Northern Frontier, 1883-1896; 3 The Red Sea Grain Market and British Strategy in Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Hills, 1883-1888; 4 The Sanat Sitta Famine in Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Hills and the Decline of Bija Autonomy, 1889-1904; 5 Slavery, Anglo-Egyptian Rule, and the Development of the Unified Sudanese Grain Market, 1896-1913
6 Cotton and Grain as the Drivers of Economic Development, 1913-19407 Food Insecurity and the Transition to Independence, 1940-1956; 8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that transferred resources to a small group of beneficiaries, including British imperial agents and indigenous elites who went on to control the Sudanese state at independence.
Political economy.
Africa-History.
World politics.
Human geography.
Africa-Politics and government.
History, Modern.
International Political Economy.
African History.
Political History.
Human Geography.
African Politics.
Modern History.