00896nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200210007610000160009724500990011326000340021230000110024652004110025765000270066865000120069565000190070720261001095537.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9781859843826  223a363.3492 DAV  aDavis, Mike 0aLate Victorian Holocaustsb: El Niño famines and the making of the third worldc/ Mike Davis  aLondonb: Verso Booksc, 2001  a464 p.  aExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.  aEconomic Development,   aFamines  a World History