Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famin
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Standards
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2001
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Verso Books
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English
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Examining a series of El Nino-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 hum