Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.
- Davis, Mike, 1946-2022
- Date:
- [2002], ©2002
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- Online
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Publication/Creation
London ; New York : Verso, [2002], ©2002.
Physical description
x, 464 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
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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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2013. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.