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Late Victorian Holocausts

El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

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Late Victorian Holocausts

Von: Mike Davis
Gesprochen von: James Patrick Cronin
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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. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.

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Colonialism has rarely, if ever, been beneficial to the people being colonialised. That, I think, has become common sense, since at least seven decades. In spite of the commendable effort of the author to assemble existing evidence about some of the most worrisome and racially most arrogant neglect of colonial subject's suffering, in favour of some imperial, mercantile "logic", it is inconceivable for me to brandish this as "Holocaust".

The cruelty and the outrageous numbers of lives lost during the author's Victorian period examples not withstanding, I neither discovered the aspect of a planned genocide, nor its industrial execution. Neither did it involve forcibly and industrially burning adversaries (as opposed to deliberate Hindu funeral traditions), to justify the term 'Holocaust'. No matter the cruelties, this term should not be abused.

Unfortunately, this book resorts to a non-historical narrative of morally inspired hindsight, thereby abusing the most terrible singularities of the 20th century. There is no justification to equate even those hideous colonial atrocities with the Holocaust. The moment we do, we lose the perspective of what changed history, ever since.

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