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.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Steven Serels
EAN: 9781137383860
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 4532 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-12-16
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GENRE: HISTORY / Africa / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
c 1500 onwards to present day, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, African history, Slavery and abolition of slavery
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.
