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

2001

Format:	Book
Author:	Davis, Mike, 1946-2022.
Title:	Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.
Publisher, Date:	London ; New York : Verso, 2001.
Description:	x, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Summary:	Examining a series of droughts and the famines that they spawned in the last third of the 19th century, this text analyses this human tragedy. It covers its global history and lasting impacts on world economic development.
Subjects:	Famines -- History -- 19th century. Famines -- India -- History -- 19th century. Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century. Famines -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century. Imperialism -- History. Economic development -- History.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Winner of the World History Association Book Award, 2002.
Contents:	The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat their homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niño and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ; Skeletons at the feast ; A millenarian revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ; Climates of hunger -- The political ecology of famine. The origins of the third world ; India: the modernization of poverty ; China: mandates revoked ; Brazil: race and capital in the Nordeste.
LCCN:	00054989
ISBN:	1859847390 9781859847398 9781859843826 1859843824 9781784786625
Other Number:	45636958
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Call Number:	363.8 Davis

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