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_a363.3492 DAV
100 _aDavis, Mike
245 0 _aLate Victorian Holocausts
_b: El Niño famines and the making of the third world
_c/ Mike Davis
260 _aLondon
_b: Verso Books
_c, 2001
300 _a464 p.
520 _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.
650 _aEconomic Development,
650 _aFamines
650 _a World History
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