![]() ![]() 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. ![]() But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. ![]() All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China and Northeastern Brazil. In reading these chapters your immersed with history that brings to light the fact that both climate cycles and the politics of famine played a major role in what happened during this era. His City of Quartz, for instance, is a truly stupendous book and unfortunately for him, probably incomparable. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (pg. Examining a series of El Nino-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. - Capital & Class (Conference of Socialist Economists) - Iss: 77, pp 159. ![]()
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