: El Niño famines and the making of the third world Davis, Mike creator text xx London : Verso Books , 2001 9999 monographic und 464 p. Examining 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. / Mike Davis Economic Development Famines World History 363.3492 DAV 9781859843826 260603 20261001095537.0