Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Mike Davis

480 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award. Examining a series of El Ni o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in...

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