Mike Davis is the author of many books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
"Davis has given us a book of substantial contemporary relevance as
well as great historical interest."--Amartya Sen
"A masterly account of climatic, economic and colonial
history."--"New Scientist"
"A hero of the Left, Davis is part polemicist, part historian, and
all Marxist."--Dale Peck, "Village Voice"
"Davis, a brilliant maverick scholar, sets the triumph of the
late-nineteenth-century Western imperialism in the context of the
catastrophic El Nino weather patterns at that time ... This is
groundbreaking, mind-stretching stuff."--"The Independent"
"Wide ranging and compelling ... a remarkable achievement."--"Times
Literary Supplement"
"Generations of historians largely ignored the implications [of the
great famines of the late nineteenth century] and until recently
dismissed them as 'climatic accidents' ... "Late Victorian
Holocausts" proves them wrong."--"LA Times Best Books of 2001"
"Devastating."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"
"The global climate meets a globalizing political economy, the
fundamentals of one clashing with the fundamentalisms of the other.
Mike Davis tells the story with zest, anger, and insight."--Stephen
J. Pyne, author of "World Fire"
"Davis's range is stunning ... . He combines political economy,
meteorology, and ecology with vivid narratives to create a book
that is both a gripping read and a major conceptual achievement.
Lots of us talk about writing 'world history' and
'inter-disciplinary history' here is the genuine article."--Kenneth
Pomeranz, author of "The Great Divergence"
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