El Niño in World History.
Series: Palgrave studies in world environmental historyPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: xvii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781137457394
- 1137457392
- 900
- GC296.8.E4 G76 2017
- ASLI Choice Award
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Richard Grove -- pt. I A Millennial History of El Niño -- 2. El Niño in Prehistory / Richard Grove -- 3. El Niño Chronology and the Little Ice Age / Richard Grove -- 4. The `Great El Niño', 1790 -- 1794 / Richard Grove -- 5. The Influence of El Niño on World Crises in the Nineteenth Century / Richard Grove -- pt. II The Science of El Niño and the Southern Oscillation -- 6. The Discovery of ENSO / George Adamson -- 7. Cataloguing the El Niño / George Adamson -- pt. III El Niño and Epidemic Disease -- 8. El Niño Events and the History of Epidemic Disease Incidence / Richard Grove -- pt. IV El Niño in Contemporary Society -- 9. El Niño in the Twentieth Century / George Adamson -- 10. El Niño in the Public Imagination / George Adamson -- 11. Postscript: El Niño and Human Future / George Adamson.
This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are coming to appreciate the significance of the phenomenon. In this volume, Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El Niño: as a global phenomenon capable of devastating weather extremes and, since the 18th century, as a developing idea in science and society. The chapters trace El Niño's position in world history from its role in the revolution in Australian Aboriginal Culture at 5,000 BP to the 2015-16 'Godzilla' event. It ends with a discussion of El Niño in the current media, which is as much a product of the public imagination as it is a natural process.
ASLI Choice Award