Grande Seca

Criança Morta ("Kanak-Kanak Mati"), 1944, karya Cândido Portinari[1]

Grande Seca, Kekeringan Besar, atau kekeringan Brasil 1877–1878 adalah kekeringan terbesar dan paling merusak dalam sejarah Brasil.[2] Kekeringan tersebut menyebabkan kematian antara 400.000 dan 500.000 orang.[3][4] Dari 800.000 orang yang tinggal di Wilayah Timur Laut yang terdampak, sekitar 120.000 bermigrasi ke Amazon sementara 68.000 bermigrasi ke belahan Brasil lainnya.[3]

Referensi

1. "MASP". MASP (dalam bahasa Portugis). Diakses tanggal 2020-07-10. 
2. "Drought, Smallpox, and Emergence of Leishmania braziliensis in Northeastern Brazil Diarsipkan 2013-11-29 di Wayback Machine.." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
3. Amazônia: interesses e conflitos Diarsipkan 2016-08-10 di Wayback Machine. (dalam bahasa Portugis)
4. "Ó Gráda, C.: Famine: A Short History Diarsipkan 2016-01-12 di Wayback Machine.." Princeton University Press.

Bacaan tambahan

Nonfiksi

• Michael H. Glantz; Currents of Change : El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society; published 1996 by Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-57659-8
• Michael H. Glantz (editor); Drought Follows The Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas; published 1994 by Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44252-4
• Fagan, Brian; Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations; published 2000 by Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-01121-7
• Nicholas G. Arons; Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil; published 2004 by University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-2433-5
• Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands

Fiksi

• Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas ("Barren Lives"), novel