![]() The sheer magnitude of what can rightly be called a holocaust of non-Western peoples has generally been obscured by a persistent metropolitan perspective, by the social distance from mass suffering of colonial administrative elites and by historians incurious about, or dismissive of, such “cycles of Cathay.” It is a signal service of this impressive, eloquent study that the dimension of this human suffering on a global scale has been both exposed and foregrounded in the operation of late-Victorian formal and informal imperialisms. Estimates of the number who perished range from thirty-one million to sixty-one million people. These phenomena occurred previously, notably in the late eighteenth century, but the late nineteenth century events were extraordinarily severe, and death by starvation and disease was on a staggering, unprecedented scale. In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis charts the unprecedented human suffering caused by a series of extreme climactic conditions in the final quarter of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() These droughts were the result of what we can now recognize as a more or less regular succession of mega-climatic events known as El Niño. ![]() Three great global droughts, in 1876-1879, 1889-1891, and 1896-1900, afflicted much of the most populous part of the tropical world in the late nineteenth century. Charles discusses how, historically, science fiction has reflected contemporary historical situations, linking the original War of the Worlds with late-. The death by famine of tens of millions of human beings in Asia and Africa during the Victorian era (18371901) is the secret history of. ![]()
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