num_pages: 464
description: Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth 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 and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.
language: English
title: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
titlecomplete: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
genres: China, Environment, Politics, Science, Economics, World History, India, Nonfiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 1733
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: WHA Bentley Book Prize
publisher: Verso