Late Victorian Holocausts

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Late Victorian Holocausts - El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World is a book by Mike Davis concerning the connection between a set of large famines in the late 1870's and again in the late 1890's and a meteorological phenomenon called ENSO, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

It describes famines in India 1876-1879 and 1896-1897/1899-1902, in China, Brazil, Ethiopia, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and New Caledonia as results of both climate (ENSO) and social and political circumstances. It shows especially how the colonial rule in British India increased rural poverty and hunger and how the government exacerbated famine.

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