Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781781680612 (1781680612)
Publish date: June 17th 2002
Publisher: Verso
Pages no: 470
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
Science,
Environment,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Sociology,
Theory,
World History
This is a scary book. The genocidal imperialists in this story are the British (and briefly, the Americans in the Philippines), but dial the clock ahead a hundred years and it’s all us. Seriously. Davis begins his story with a description of ex-president Ulysses Grant’s “family vacation” around t...
Though I agree with other reviewers that Davis is at his best when discussing India, the sections on Brazil, China, and numerous other places (to which he pays insufficient attention, truly) are generally informative. Perhaps it's fair to say that he establishes his argument on the basis of the Brit...
14 years ago
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