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999 _c1841
_d1841
020 _a9781859843826
_a1859847390 (cloth)
020 _a1859843824 (pbk.)
040 _cCUS
082 0 0 _a940.5318
_bDAV/L
100 1 _aDavis, Mike
245 1 0 _aLate Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world /
_cMike Davis.
260 _aLondon :
_bVerso,
_c2002.
300 _ax,464p. :
_c21cm.
_bill. ;
505 0 _aThe great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat their homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- El NiƱo 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.
650 0 _aFamines
_xHistory
650 0 _aFamines
_zIndia
_xHistory
650 0 _aFamines
_zChina
_xHistory
650 0 _aFamines
_zBrazil
_xHistory
650 0 _aImperialism
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEconomic development
_xHistory.
942 _cWB16