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Book jacket

BOOK

Author

Davis, Mike, 1946-

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

Publisher

London ; New York : Verso, 2001.

LOCATION	CLASS NO.	STATUS
Store LSAD	363.8 DAV	AVAILABLE

Descript	x, 464 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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 -- India -- History -- 19th century.
	Famines -- China -- History -- 19th century.
	Famines -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century.
	Imperialism -- History.
	Economic development -- History.
ISBN	1859847390 (cloth)