TY - BOOK AU - Davis, Mike TI - Late Victorian Holocausts: : El Niño famines and the making of the third world SN - 9781859843826 U1 - 363.3492 DAV 23 PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - : Verso Books KW - Economic Development, KW - Famines KW - World History N2 - 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 ER -