Subtitel: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Auteur: Davis, Mike
Jaar: 2017
ISBN: 9781784786625
Pagina's: 474
Taal: English
Uitgever: Verso
Uitgever stad: London
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Late Victorian Holocausts
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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. 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.