 | Paul Farmer - Social Science - 2003 - 429 pages
..."late Victorian holocausts," which led to some fifty million deaths, he concludes that "we are not dealing, in other words, with 'lands of famine' becalmed...London-centered world economy. Millions died, not outside 174 Notes to Pages 41-44 the 'modern world system,' but in the very process of being forcibly incorporated... | |
 | Peter Brooker, Andrew Thacker - American literature - 2005 - 196 pages
...by colonial states looking to conquer and administrate territories. 'Millions died', writes Davis, 'not outside the "modern world system", but in the...incorporated into its economic and political structures' (Davis 2001: 9). Largely because of the conceptual framework of continents, these African 'problems'... | |
 | Caroline Baillie - Electronic books - 2006 - 77 pages
...imperialist societies caused natural disasters to become national holocausts. In British India for instance, 'Millions died, not outside the "modern world system"...incorporated into its economic and political structures'. Polanyi (1944/2001) was one of the only historians to see that 'the actual source of famines in the... | |
 | Eugene Linden - Climate and civilization - 2006 - 322 pages
...amplified the casualties through their beetle-browed adherence to "free market" economics. Davis writes: "Millions died, not outside the 'modern world system,' but in the very process of being forcibly integrated into its economic and political structures. They died in the golden age of Liberal Capitalism;... | |
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Millions died, not outside the "modern world system," but in the very process of being forcibly incorporated into its economic and political structures. They died in the golden age of Liberal Capitalism; indeed, many were murdered, as we shall see, by... 