Late Victorian Holocausts : El Nino, Famines, and the Making of the Third World
ISBN: 9781859843826 | 1859843824
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: VERSO
Pub. Date: 6/17/2002
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Examining aseries of El Niņo-induced droughts and the famines that they spawnedaround the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davisdiscloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arroganceand natural incident that combined to produce some of the worsttragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India,Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the sameglobal climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and allexperienced brutal... MORE
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||||
| Preface | 1 | (16) | |||
| A Note on Definitions | 17 | (6) | |||
| Part I The Great Drought 1876-1878 | 23 | (94) | |||
| 25 | (36) | |||
| 61 | (30) | |||
| 91 | (26) | |||
| Part II El Nino and the New Imperialism 1888-1902 | 117 | (94) | |||
| 119 | (22) | |||
| 141 | (36) | |||
| 177 | (34) | |||
| Part III Decyphering ENSO | 211 | (66) | |||
| 213 | (26) | |||
| 239 | (38) | |||
| Part IV The Political Ecology of Famine | 277 | (118) | |||
| 279 | (32) | |||
| 311 | (30) | |||
| 341 | (36) | |||
| 377 | (18) | |||
| Glossary | 395 | (4) | |||
| Notes | 399 | (52) | |||
| Index | 451 |
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