Late Victorian Holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world
Davis, Mike
Late Victorian Holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis - London : Verso Books , 2001 - 464 p.
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.
9781859843826
Economic Development,
Famines
World History
363.3492 DAV
Late Victorian Holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis - London : Verso Books , 2001 - 464 p.
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.
9781859843826
Economic Development,
Famines
World History
363.3492 DAV
