Late Victorian Holocausts
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Recommended by Khurshid Alam, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #61 in Chinese History, Ranked #89 in Economic History
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth 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 and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World. less
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Khurshid Alam This is a very interesting book – it contains some very good storytelling about the late Victorian famines in Africa, India, China, Brazil and elsewhere. It could almost be described as a narration of human suffering. It also contains many rare photographs depicting the famines. (Source)
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