Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.

By:

Davis, Mike, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Verso, 2001.Description: x, 464 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781859843826 (pbk.)
1859843824 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.8091724 DAV 23 008552

LOC classification:

HC79.F3 D38 2001

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	363.8091724 DAV 008552 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	07/10/2024	008552

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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