Late Victorian Holocausts Davis Mike
Late Victorian Holocausts Davis Mike Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused…
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Late Victorian Holocausts Davis Mike
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.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.Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil.
But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling
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