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Author Davis, Mike, 1946-

Title Late Victorian holocausts [electronic resource] : El Niņo famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.

Imprint London ; New York : Verso, c2002.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 464 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 22 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat their homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niņo 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.
Reproduction 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.
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.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 1859843824 (DLC) 00054989
Standard No. 2027/heb30886 hdl

 
    
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