Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2002Description: x, 464 p. : ill.; 21 cmISBN: 9781859843826; 1859847390 (cloth); 1859843824 (pbk.)Subject(s): Famines -- History | Famines -- India -- History | Famines -- China -- History | Famines -- Brazil -- History | Imperialism -- History | Economic development -- HistoryDDC classification: 940.5318Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 940.5318 DAV/L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P32024 |
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.
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