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...unique, path breaking. Hence, his book's appearance now in paperback is to be warmly welcomed. The famines of the last quarter of the nineteenth century took place not only in the context of periodic and widespread drought but also in world increasingly controlled by the western powers, their empires and their trade and financial dominance. But, as Davis shows, climate-induced drought does not necessarily lead to famine. He provides convincing evidence of the superiority of pre-colonial organisation against famine over late nineteenth-century colonial regimes. The weather may be natural, but famine is a social phenomenon.
Off the coast of Ecuador and Peru, there is a slight warming of the sea...
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