Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (repost)

“Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.”—Tariq Ali
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history.