A Milestone on the Road to Independence? Singapore’s Catastrophic 1954 Floods
Arcadia, Autumn 2016, no. 13
British perceptions of the 1874 famines in India and the Ottoman Empire were shaped by discourses that defined these regions as spaces of absence, scarcity, wilderness, or empty land in desperate need of colonial investment and opportunity.
A severe famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea affects eight million people.