The results were staggering.Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of Environmental Literature and Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Following the footprints of concomitant famines in India and China, Davis began searching for other food shortages during this time.

Researching further in both scientific and humanities literature, Davis began to unravel a relationship between the El Niño phenomenon, climate change, capitalism, imperialism, and global famines during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century. While writing Ecology of Fear about natural and political disasters in Los Angeles, maverick historian Mike Davis stumbled across a reference to famines in Asia that were related to El Niño (ENSO) weather patterns. george dehner Northeastern University Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World.

Students of this transition will find Rising Life Expectancy an excellent springboard into the literature of this process. Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press īook Reviews unnecessarily high given what could be achieved' (p. As the body count of famine victims mounted into the tens of millions in India, China, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, Korea, New Caledonia, and so on, Davis knew that he was on to one of the 'darkest secrets of

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