Davis, Mike, <br/><br/>
Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world / 
Mike Davis. 
 - London ;  New York :  Verso,  2002. 
 - x, 464 p. : ill.;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat their homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niņo 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781859843826  1859847390 (cloth) 1859843824 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Famines--History<br/>Famines--History--India<br/>Famines--History--China<br/>Famines--History--Brazil<br/>Imperialism--History.<br/>Economic development--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.5318  / DAV/L