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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• 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, 1913-1940 7. Food Insecurity and the Transition to Independence, 1940-1956 8. Conclusion