![]() ![]() 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. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. ![]() So much about Covid-19 feels like what he catalogs: the punitive, racist. 27.00 Steven Stoll Author and Article Information The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2002) 33 (1): 9899. By Mike Davis ( New York, Verso, 2001 ) 464 pp. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. The story of climate in The Long Winter is told, in a different context, in Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nio Famines and the Making of the Third World Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nio Famines and the Making of the Third World. ![]() ![]() Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China and Northeastern Brazil. Examining a series of El Ni�o-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. ![]()
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