Name: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (en Inglés)
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Author: Davis, Mike
ISBN: 9781784786625

portada Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mike Davis

Editorial

Verso

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

480

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781784786625

Categorías

Alimentación
Ideologías y movimientos políticos
Economía política

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (en Inglés)

Mike Davis (Autor) · Verso · Tapa Blanda

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Winner of the World History Association Book Award Blending global environmental history with political history, this bestselling book explores "late-nineteenth-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time" (Independent) 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.