Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world/ Mike Davis.
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TextPublication details: London : Verso, 2002Description: x,464p. : 21cm. illISBN: 9781859843826; 1859847390 (cloth); 1859843824 (pbk.)Subject(s): Famines -- History | Famines -- India -- History | Famines -- China -- History | Famines -- Brazil -- History | Imperialism -- History | Economic development -- HistoryDDC classification: 940.5318
Contents:
The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ;
"The poor eat their homes" ;
Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niño and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ;
Skeletons at the feast ;
A millenarian revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ;
Climates of hunger -- 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.
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 940.5318 DAV/L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P39106 |
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The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ;
"The poor eat their homes" ;
Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niño and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ;
Skeletons at the feast ;
A millenarian revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ;
Climates of hunger -- 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.
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