Late Victorian Holocausts
Subtitle: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Publisher: Verso
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781859843826
Subjects: Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena; Famine; Human rights; Social history; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; Developing countries; General; Modern - 19th Century; Modern - General
First sentence: "Here's the northeast monsoon at last," said Hon. Robert Ellis, C.B., junior member of the Governor's Council, Madras, as a heavy shower of rain fell at Coonoor, on a day towards the end of October 1876, when the members of the Madras Government were returning from their summer sojourn on the hills.