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Late Victorian holocausts: El Niño famines and the making of the third world

Mike Davis c2002 © Verso
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  • 9781781680612 (ebook)
  • 9781784786625 (paper)
  • 9781859847398 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Environmental History
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Preface (page 1)
  • A Note on Definitions (page 17)
  • PART I The Great Droughts, 1876-1878 (page 23)
    • 1 Victoria's Ghosts (page 25)
    • 2 'The Poor Eat Their Homes' (page 61)
    • 3 Gunboats and Messiahs (page 91)
  • PART II El Niño and the New Imperialism, 1888-1902 (page 117)
    • 4 The Government of Hell (page 119)
    • 5 Skeletons at the Feast (page 141)
    • 6 Millenarian Revolutions (page 177)
  • PART III Decyphering ENSO (page 211)
    • 7 The Mystery of the Monsoons (page 213)
    • 8 Climates of Hunger (page 239)
  • PART IV The Political Ecology of Famine (page 277)
    • 9 The Origins of the Third World (page 279)
    • 10 India: The Modernization of Poverty (page 311)
    • 11 China: Mandates Revoked (page 341)
    • 12 Brazil: Race and Capital in the Nordeste (page 377)
  • Glossary (page 395)
  • Notes (page 399)
  • Index (page 451)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AAAG 92.1 (Mar. 2002): 173-175 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1515287
TC 43.2 (Apr. 2002): 463-464 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147950
JSocH 36.3 (Spring 2003): 759-765 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790738
JIH 33.1 (Summer 2002): 98-99 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3656926
JEH 61.3 (Sep. 2001): 871-872 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2698176
VS 45.3 (Spring 2003): 529-530 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/summary/v045/45.3epstein.html
JWH 14.4 (Dec. 2003): 577-579 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/summary/v014/14.4cottrell.html
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