Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / Mike Davis.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2001Description: x, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1859847390
- 9781859847398
- 363.8091724
- HC79.F3. D38 2001
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 363.8091724 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A283743B |
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| 363.8 SUS Sustainable food planning : evolving theory and practice / | 363.809 ATK Food in society : economy, culture, geography / | 363.809 OGR Famine : a short history / | 363.8091724 DAV Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the third world / | 363.8091724 LAP World hunger : 12 myths / | 363.8095193 HAG Famine in North Korea : markets, aid, and reform / | 363.80993 KIN Re-food : exploring the troubled food system of Aotearoa New Zealand / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- A Note on Definitions -- Pt. I. The Great Drought, 1876-1878 -- 1. Victoria's Ghosts -- 2. 'The Poor Eat Their Homes' -- 3. Gunboats and Messiahs -- Pt. II. El Nino and the New Imperialism, 1888-1902 -- 4. The Government of Hell -- 5. Skeletons at the Feast -- 6. Millenarian Revolutions -- Pt. III. Decyphering ENSO -- 7. The Mystery of the Monsoons -- 8. Climates of Hunger -- Pt. IV. The Political Ecology of Famine -- 9. The Origins of the Third World -- 10. India: The Modernization of Poverty -- 11. China: Mandates Revoked -- 12. Brazil: Race and Capital in the Nordeste -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.
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