Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines And The Making Of The Third World

Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Davis shows how the ruling elites helped produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. 15 photos. 8 maps.

Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.