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

But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. 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.. Examining a series of El Niño-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. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil

P. Hung said sui generis. A sui generis history of mysterious meteorological cycles, the impact of international market integration on agrarian societies, and the tragedy of sui generis A sui generis history of mysterious meteorological cycles, the impact of international market integration on agrarian societies, and the tragedy of 30 to 60 million starved dead whose absence as an accumulated population from collective memory belies their importance in the scope of Europe's imperial ambitions. Harrowing, terrifying, important. 0 to 60 million starved dead whose absence as an accumulated population from collective memory belies their importance in the scope of Europe's imperial ambitions. Harrowing, terrifying, important. Climate change in the real world Richard Reese (author of Understanding Sustainability) In the years 1876-1879 and 1896-1902 between 12.2 and 29.3 million died of famine in India. In the years 1876-1879 and 1896-1900 between 19.5 and 30 million died of famine in China. In the same period, an estimated 2 million died in Brazil. Famine hit these three nations the hardest, but many other nations were also affected. In the US, church. The History of a Not So Natural Disaster So much of the history of the third world just presents the desperate living conditions as something that has always existed in that part of the world and always will. It is so well know and described that it is just assumed that there is nothing that can be done about it and that it is the fault of the tropical environment and the backwards p