Late Victorian Holocausts
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Late Victorian Holocausts
| Full title | Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World |
|---|---|
| Author | Mike Davis |
| Published | 2001 |
| Pages | 467 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Mike Davis on the famines of 1876–79 and 1896–1902 in India, China and Brazil, arguing that El Niño droughts became mass death because of grain exports, railway pricing and colonial free-market doctrine — and that this is where the global income gap opened. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @SpencrGreenberg — named in the replies to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?”, June 2025. The full list lives on A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Economic History — the frame the argument works in.
- People Over Politics — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.