Late Victorian Holocausts
El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
Paperback | 17 January 2017 | Edition Number 1
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" . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Ni o weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching." --The Independent
Examining a series of El Ni o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th 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.
Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites.
Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.
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ISBN: 9781784786625
ISBN-10: 1784786624
Series: Essential Mike Davis
Published: 17th January 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 474
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 3.8 x 13 x 19.8
Weight (kg): 0.37
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