1. Some thoughts on John A. Macdonald & famine relief inspired by James Daschuk's brilliant Clearing the Plains: http://www.amazon.ca/Clearing-Plains-Politics-Starvation-Aboriginal/dp/0889772967 …
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3. Amartya Sen has taught us that famines always have political dimension & Mike Davis environmental roots of "Late Victorian Holocausts"
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4. The global famines of late 1870s in Asia, Africa & western Canada offshoot of El Nino effect & opportunity to consolidate empire.
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