Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world.

By R. Bryant. 2002

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ENSO as an Integrating Concept in Earth Science (2006, background): “Historically, droughtrelated crop failures due to El Niño were a major contributor to famine that would periodically devastate vulnerable populations (53).”
El Niño as a mediator of the solar influence on climate (2007, background): “Sunspots were a favored explanation for monsoon failures as early as 1875 [see Davis, 2001, chapter 7], and the link between the Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age was made a century later [Eddy, 1977] (for recent reviews, see Rind [2002] and Bard and Frank [2006]).”
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (2017, unknown): “M. Davis 1986.”
Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange, 1960–2018 (2021, background): “The South (the ‘periphery’) was made to serve as a source of cheap labour and raw materials for the North (the ‘core’), and as a captive market for Northern manufactured goods (Davis 2002; Chang 2008).”