Late Victorian holocausts: El Nino famines and the making of the third world /
Mike Davis.
- London : Verso, 2002.
- x,464p. : ill. ; 21cm.
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.