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The Origins of the Third World: Markets, States and Climate
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/origins-third-worldThe “Third World” – the division of humanity into haves and have-nots – was shaped by fatal interactions between world climate and world economy at the end of the nineteenth century. Three waves of drought, famine and disease devastated agriculture throughout the tropics and northern China when the monsoons failed. The total human toll could not have been less than 30 million victims. Fifty million dead might not be unrealistic.
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