Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
Verso, 2001. Hardcover. 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..... More