Davis, Mike,  1946- <br/><br/>
Late Victorian holocausts  El Niņo famines and the making of the third world /  [electronic resource] : 
Mike Davis. 
 - London ;  Verso,  c2002. 
 - x, 464 p. :  ill., maps, ports. ;  22 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat their homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niņo and the new imperialism, 1888-1902. The government of hell ; Skeletons at the feast ; A millenarian revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ; Climates of hunger -- The political ecology of famine. The origins of the third world ; India: the modernization of poverty ; China: mandates revoked ; Brazil: race and capital in the Nordeste. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb30886  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--History--19th century.--History--India--19th century.--History--China--19th century.--History--Brazil--19th century.--History.--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Famines Famines Famines Famines Imperialism Economic development