Davis Mike - Late Victorian Holocausts El Nino Famines And The Making Of The Third World - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This global environmental and political history will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project (Observer) . sets the triumph of the late 19th - century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Ni o weather patterns at that time groundbreaking mind - stretching. The Independent Examining a series of El Ni o - induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th 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. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants lives.
Title: Late Victorian Holocausts El Nino Famines And The Making Of The Third World
Author(s): Davis Mike
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781784786625
Pages: 480 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2017
Series: The Essential Mike Davis
Category: Meteorology & Climatology