![]() Pablo Neruda (1937)Ĭontents Acknowledgements Preface A Note on Definitions PART IThe Great Drought, 1876–1878 1Victoria’s Ghosts 2‘The Poor Eat Their Homes’ 3Gunboats and Messiahs PART II El Niño and the New Imperialism, 1888–1902 4The Government of Hell 5Skeletons at the Feast 6Millenarian Revolutions PART III Deciphering ENSO 7The Mystery of the Monsoons 8Climates of Hunger PART IV The Political Ecology of Famine 9The Origins of the Third World 10India: The Modernization of Poverty 11China: Mandates Revoked 12Brazil: Race and Capital in the Nordeste Glossary Notes IndexĪcknowledgements An ancient interest in climate history was rekindled during the week I spent as a fly on the wall at the June 1998 Chapman Conference, “Mechanisms of Millennial-Scale Global Climate Change,” in Snowbird, Utah. Offended Lands … It is so much, so many tombs, so much martyrdom, so much galloping of beasts in the star! Nothing, not even victory will erase the terrible hollow of the blood: nothing, neither the sea, nor the passage of sand and time, nor the geranium flaming upon the grave. D38 2017 | DDC 363.809172/409034-dc23 LC record available at Typeset in Adobe Garamond by Steven Hiatt/Hiatt & Dragon, San Francisco Printed in the USA by Maple Press | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. Imperialism-Environmental aspects-History-19th century. ![]() |īrazil-Environmental conditions-History-19th century. |Ĭhina-Environmental conditions-History-19th century. India-Environmental conditions-History-19th century. | DevelopingĬountries-Environmental conditions-History-19th century. |ĭroughts-Developing countries-History-19th century. | Famines-Developing countries-History-19th century. | El Niño Current-Social aspects-Developing countries-History-19th century. | Political ecology-Developing countries-History-19th century. Identifiers: LCCN 2016026162 | ISBN 9781784786625 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Human ecology-Developing countries-History-19th century. Description: London New York : Verso, 2017. Title: Late Victorian holocausts : El Niño famines and the making of the This paperback edition first published by Verso 2017 First published by Verso 2001 © Mike Davis 2001, 2002, 2017 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-662-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-061-2 (US EBK) ISBN-13: 978-1-78168-360-6 (UK EBK) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Davis, Mike, 1946– author. Late Victorian Holocausts El Niño Famines and the Making Praise for Late Victorian Holocausts “Generations of historians largely ignored the implications and until recently dismissed them as ‘climatic accidents’ … Late Victorian Holocausts proves them wrong.” LA Times Best Books of 2001 “Wide ranging and compelling … a remarkable achievement.” Times Literary Supplement “A masterly account of climatic, economic and colonial history.” New Scientist “A hero of the Left, Davis is part polemicist, part historian, and all Marxist.” Dale Peck, Village Voice “Davis has given us a book of substantial contemporary relevance as well as great historical interest … this highly informative book goes well beyond its immediate focus.” New York Times “Davis, a brilliant maverick scholar, sets the triumph of the late-nineteenth-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time … This is groundbreaking, mind-stretching stuff.” Independent “The catalogue of cruelty Davis has unearthed is jaw-dropping … Late Victorian Holocausts is as ugly as it is compelling.” Guardian “Controversial, comprehensive, and compelling, this book is megahistory at its most fascinating-a monument to times past, but hopefully not a predictor of future disasters.” Foreign Affairs “Devastating.” San Francisco Chronicle ![]() Part II: El Niño and the New Imperialism, 1888-1902ġ2.
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