Author: Mike Davis
Year: 2000
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History, Non Fiction, Politics, Economics
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9781859843826
9781784786625
1859843824
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Examining a series of El Nino-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.
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