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Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world
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Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world

Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mike Davis
ISBN: 1859847390 9781859847398 9781859843826 1859843824
OCLC Number: 45636958
Description: 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.
Responsibility: Mike Davis.

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