Verso, Date: 2017-01-17. Paperback. New. Verso ISBN 1784786624 9781784786625 [US]

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ISBN10: 1784786624, ISBN13: 9781784786625, [publisher: Verso Books Jan 2017] Softcover Neuware - Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.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.
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ISBN10: 1784786624, ISBN13: 9781784786625, [publisher: Verso Books Jan 2017] Softcover Neuware - Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.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.
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Verso Books, Date: 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 474 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.75 inches. 2017. Verso Books ISBN 1784786624 9781784786625 [GB]

ISBN10: 1784786624, ISBN13: 9781784786625, [publisher: Verso Books] Softcover 2017. Reissue. Paperback. Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KLSB; 3JH; HBTB; JFFC1; JPV; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 516. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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