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 ...
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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.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 9781859843826.
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Fair. The pages show normal wear and tear. There is light highlighting or handwriting throughout the book. The cover has visible markings and wear. They may be stickers or sticker residue on the cover. Some corner dings. The front hinge is split the webbing is showing but all pages are intact There are some creases on the spine The books is bent and the pages are wavy and curved Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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First Paperback Edition; Seventh Printing
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Verso
Published:
2014
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
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Very Good. Essential Mike Davis; B&W Illustrations; 6.1 X 1.4 X 7.9 inches; 464 pages; Very Good overall condition. No noteworthy defects. No markings.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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This is a very competent coverage of economic history, imperialist plundering, meteorological trends, and a detailing of inhumanity for corporate profit, comparable in some sense to the institutionalization of African Slavery in the nominal west. In effect a compiling of evidence of how "Eastern" countries were plundered by western corporate profits without a moral compass. The result being the creation of what is now dismissed as "Third World Countries."