Starvation and the State

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-12

3. Famine and the Making of Sudan’s Northern Frontier, 1883–1896

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4. The Red Sea Grain Market and British Strategy in Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Hills, 1883–1888

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   Pages 45-72

5. The Sanat Sitta Famine in Eastern Sudan and the Red Sea Hills and the Decline of Bija Autonomy, 1889–1904

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6. Slavery, Anglo-Egyptian Rule, and the Development of the Unified Sudanese Grain Market, 1896–1913

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7. Cotton and Grain as the Drivers of Economic Development, 1913–1940

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8. Food Insecurity and the Transition to Independence, 1940–1956

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9. Conclusion

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10. Back Matter

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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.

• agents
• development
• economic development
• independence
• science and technology
• strategy
• transition

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Steven Serels is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University, USA. He is also a Research Associate at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada.

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