Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.
Format:
Pages:
464 pages
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Publisher:
Edition:
1st, First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1859843824
ISBN13:
9781859843826
kindle Asin:
B007CO9FJO
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.