Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Mike Davis

519 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident ...

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