{"product_id":"late-victorian-holocausts-el-nio-famines-and-the-making-of-the-third-world-9781784786625","title":"Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLate Victorian Holocausts\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784786625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.50d","brand":"Mike Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37893295407285,"sku":"9781784786625","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bf341a6d-2f2a-41d3-9999-d09a1c4da8d6.jpg?v=1607684185","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/late-victorian-holocausts-el-nio-famines-and-the-making-of-the-third-world-9781784786625","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}