Davis, Mike,   1946- <br/><br/>
Late Victorian holocausts   El Niño fam ines and the making of the third world /   [electronic resource] : 
Mike Davis. 
 - London ;   New York :   Verso,   c2002. 
 - x, 464 p. :   ill., maps, ports. ;   22 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The great drought, 1876-1878. Victoria's ghosts ; "The poor eat thei r homes" ; Gunboats and messiahs -- El Niño and the new imperialism, 1 888-1902. The government of hell ; Skeletons at the feast ; A millenari an revolutions -- Decyphering ENSO. The mystery of the monsoons ; Clima tes of hunger -- The political ecology of famine. The origins of the th ird world ; India: the modernization of poverty ; China: mandates revok ed ; Brazil: race and capital in the Nordeste. 
<br/><br/><br/> Electronic text and image data. <br/> Ann Arbor, Mich. : <br/> University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, <br/> 2013. <br/> Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. <br/> ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) <br/> Mode of a ccess: Intranet. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Famines-- History-- 19th century.<br/> Famines-- History-- India-- 19th century.<br/> Famines-- History-- China-- 19th century.<br/> Famines-- History-- Brazil-- 19th century.<br/> Imperialism-- History.<br/> Economic development-- History.