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Late Victorian Holocausts

El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

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Late Victorian Holocausts

Written by: Mike Davis
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
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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. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. 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.

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I have never heard of such damnable callousness in all my life before. What tyranny it was! I had no notion to what meanness extravagance had reduced the Britishers. The infernal cowards would fly at the starving Indians. The relief camps were nothing but emaciated holdovers.
Famines were simultaneously occurring in the colonies of China, Brazil and Egypt.
This book carries historical, geopolitical and economic importance. Mike Davis has also explained the El Nino and La Nina tropical events that influence weather all over the world.
“Rapid warmings of the Eastern tropical Pacific are associated with weak monsoons and synchronous drought throughout vast parts of Asia, Africa and northeastern South America”

Did you ever hear of masses having such hard luck?

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