What does Mike Davis add to contemporary understandings of European history?

 

Answer:

In his book making of the third world, Davis explains how during the British imperialism, millions of

people were killed by extreme weather due to bad system during the imperialism period. He elaborates

this in his text "bad weather" versus "bad system".

Step-by-step explanation

He explains that during that period people were knocked down by and natural occurrence that

happened, but when the same natural disasters happen in the late 19th century, mortality rate was low

compared to that during imperialism. Then he poses a question of why the difference? Which he still

answers in the same book as being the bad system by the Europeans. He further talks about how the

contemporary European society denied subsistence as a human right to its peasantry.

Citation

Davis, M. (2015). Fortress La. In The city reader (pp. 246-251). Routledge.