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03468aam a2200433 i 4500 001 1E8CAAA04E0D11EEB27AAEFD5AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230908010028 008 160802s2017 enka 000 0 eng 010 $a 2016026162 020 $a 1784786624 020 $a 9781784786625 035 $a (OCoLC)954719893 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d VP@ $d XFG $d IAK $d OTC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- $a a-ii--- $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a GF900 $b .D38 2017 082 00 $a 363.809172/409034 $2 23 100 1 $a Davis, Mike, $d 1946- $e author. $9 47660 245 10 $a Late Victorian holocausts : $b El Niño famines and the making of the Third World / $c Mike Davis. 264 1 $a London ; $b Verso, $c 2017. 300 $a x, 469 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 505 0 $a Preface -- A note on definitions -- Part I. The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat their homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- Part II. El niño and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ; Skeletons at the feast ; Millenarian revolutions -- Part III. Deciphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ; Climates of hunger -- Part IV. The political ecology of famine. The origins of the Third World ; India : the modernization of poverty ; China : mandates revoked ; Brazil : race and capital in the Nordeste -- Glossary. 520 2 $a "Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Examining a series of El Niño-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"-- 650 0 $a Human ecology $z Developing countries $x History $y 19th century. $9 47661 650 0 $a Political ecology $z Developing countries $x History $y 19th century. $9 47662 650 0 $a Famines $z Developing countries $x History $y 19th century. $9 47663 650 0 $a Droughts $z Developing countries $x History $y 19th century. $9 47664 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History $x History $y 19th century. $9 47665 650 4 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. $9 47666 650 4 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food. $9 47667 651 0 $a El Niño Current $x History $z Developing countries $x History $y 19th century. $9 47668 651 0 $a Developing countries $x History $x History $y 19th century. $9 47669 651 0 $a India $x History $x History $y 19th century. $9 47670 651 0 $a China $x History $x History $y 19th century. $9 47671 651 0 $a Brazil $x History $x History $y 19th century. $9 47672 941 $a 1 952 $l GLAX641 $d 20231201010750.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E8CAAA04E0D11EEB27AAEFD5AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search