Description: Late Victorian HolocaustsEl Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World Author(s): Mike Davis Format: Paperback Publisher: Verso Books, United Kingdom Imprint: Verso Books ISBN-13: 9781784786625, 978-1784786625 Synopsis Examining a series of El Nino-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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Book Title: Late Victorian Holocausts
Subject Area: Economic Sociology
Item Height: 198mm
Item Width: 129mm
Author: Mike Davis
Publication Name: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Government, History
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 367g
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
