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

Mike Davis


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4.21 · 14 ratings · 519 pages · Published: 19 Nov 2000

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
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 that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.

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