Late Victorian Holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis

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Davis, Mike

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Verso Books , 2001Description: 464 pISBN:

9781859843826

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DDC classification:

23 363.3492 DAV

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection	SNU LIBRARY	363.3492 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection	G7917

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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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