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Late Victorian Holocausts:El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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Reviews
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Davis has given us a book of substantial contemporary relevance as well as great historical interest...this highly informative book foes well beyond its immediate focus.
, The New York Times -
Davis's range is stunning...He combines political economy, meteorology, and ecology with vivid narratives to create a book that is both a gripping read and a major conceptual achievement. Lots of us talk about writing 'world history' and 'interdisciplinary history': here is the genuine article.
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The global climate meets a globalizing political economy, the fundamentals of one clashing with the fundamentalisms of the other. Mike Davis tells the story with zest, anger, and insight.
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Davis, a brilliant maverick scholar, sets the triumph of the late-nineteenth-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time ... This is groundbreaking, mind-stretching stuff.
Independent -
Late Victorian Holocausts will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project. After reading this, I defy even the most ardent nationalist to feel proud of the so-called ‘achievements’ of empire.
Observer -
Devastating.
San Francisco Chronicle -
Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.
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Generations of historians largely ignored the implications [of the great famines of the late nineteenth century] and until recently dismissed them as 'climatic accidents'...Late Victorian Holocausts proves them wrong.
Los Angeles Times (Best Books of 2001) -
Wide ranging and compelling...a remarkable achievement.
Times Literary Supplement -
A masterly account of climatic, economic and colonial history.
New Scientist -
A hero of the Left, Davis is part polemicist, part historian, and all Marxist.
, Village Voice -
The catalogue of cruelty Davis has unearthed is jaw-dropping … Late Victorian Holocausts is as ugly as it is compelling.
, Guardian -
Controversial, comprehensive, and compelling, this book is megahistory at its most fascinating—a monument to times past, but hopefully not a predictor of future disasters.
Foreign Affairs -
Devastating.
San Francisco Chronicle