Way back in the 19th century the Bihar and Bengal famines of 1873-1874 were dealt with by the import of…
There cannot be a word in the English language that conjures up more haunting - and terrifying - images. The…
Ukraine has always been invaluable to Russia as a ready source of grain. For centuries, the fertile black earth of…
The Armenians have inhabited the Caucusus, between Russia and eastern Turkey, since time immemorial. They were among the earliest Christian…
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Africa’s traditional subsistence economies have been subject to the whims of nature since time immemorial - as evidenced by events…
For two years in the 1870s over 58 million people in the Bombay, Madras, Mysore and Hyderabad areas of southern…
The once widely used catch-all phrase ‘Australian Aboriginals’ is being replaced by Indigenous Australians’. In fact, both descriptions are misleading,…
‘Manifest Destiny’ has at its core the assertion that not only were the European people of America right in their…
During the Napoleonic Wars, Irish landlords enjoyed a successful period as the price of food was high. Once peace was…