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Politics

How the East Grew Poor

Imperial weather and the poverty of nations

L. Birdzell Jr. | From the August/September 2001 issue

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Late Victorian Holocausts : El Ni?o Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis, London and New York: Verso Books, 464 pages, $27

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