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

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

El Niño's impact: Imperialism amplifies natural disasters.

"Late Victorian Holocausts" is a potent reminder of how human actions can exacerbate natural calamities. If you're interested in the intersection of environmental factors and historical injustices, Mike Davis offers a compelling analysis. This book will challenge how you perceive the roots of poverty in the modern world, pulling back the curtain on a period of human history that shaped the geopolitical landscape of today.

  • WHA Bentley Book Prize (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Mike Davis
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ISBN: 9781784786625
Authors: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Date of Publication: 2017-01-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Economics, History, Politics, Sociology, Science
Related Topics: Sociology, World History, Politics, Sociology, History, Economics, History, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 2063 readers)

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A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became 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 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.
 

El Niño's impact: Imperialism amplifies natural disasters.

"Late Victorian Holocausts" is a potent reminder of how human actions can exacerbate natural calamities. If you're interested in the intersection of environmental factors and historical injustices, Mike Davis offers a compelling analysis. This book will challenge how you perceive the roots of poverty in the modern world, pulling back the curtain on a period of human history that shaped the geopolitical landscape of today.

  • WHA Bentley Book Prize (2002)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.