Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world /
Davis, Mike
Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis. - London : Verso, 2002. - x,464p. : ill. ; 21cm.
The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ;
"The poor eat their homes" ;
Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niño and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ;
Skeletons at the feast ;
A millenarian revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ;
Climates of hunger -- The political ecology of famine. The origins of the third world ;
India: the modernization of poverty ;
China: mandates revoked ;
Brazil: race and capital in the Nordeste.
9781859843826 1859847390 (cloth) 1859843824 (pbk.)
Famines--History
Famines--History--India
Famines--History--China
Famines--History--Brazil
Imperialism--History.
Economic development--History.
940.5318 / DAV/L
Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis. - London : Verso, 2002. - x,464p. : ill. ; 21cm.
The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ;
"The poor eat their homes" ;
Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niño and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ;
Skeletons at the feast ;
A millenarian revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ;
Climates of hunger -- The political ecology of famine. The origins of the third world ;
India: the modernization of poverty ;
China: mandates revoked ;
Brazil: race and capital in the Nordeste.
9781859843826 1859847390 (cloth) 1859843824 (pbk.)
Famines--History
Famines--History--India
Famines--History--China
Famines--History--Brazil
Imperialism--History.
Economic development--History.
940.5318 / DAV/L