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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Name: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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SKU: 9781784786625
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Contributors:

Mike Davis

Publisher:

Verso

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Political Science, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Political Economy, Political Ideologies, Agriculture & Food

Book Topic:

Radicalism

Series:

Essential Mike Davis

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Release Date:

2017-01-17

ISBN 13:

9781784786625

Weight:

0.85 lbs

Size:

7.70 x 5.00 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

480

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This global environmental and political history "will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project" (Observer).

" . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching." --The Independent

Examining a series of El Niño-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.

About the Author
Mike Davis is the author of several books including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. A resident of San Diego, California, he passed away in October 2022 at the age of 76.

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