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Author Davis, Mike, 1946-

Title Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Verso, 2001.

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 Moore Stacks  HC79.F3 D38 2001    DUE 05-10-24 12:00AM  ---
Description x, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Famines -- History -- 19th century.
Famines.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Famines -- India -- History -- 19th century.
India.
Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century.
China.
Famines -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century.
Brazil.
Imperialism -- History.
Imperialism.
Economic development -- History.
Economic development.
ISBN 1859847390 cloth