TY - BOOK AU - Grove,Richard AU - Adamson,George TI - El Niño in World History T2 - Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History SN - 9781137457394 AV - GC296.8.E4 G76 2017 U1 - 900 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Southern oscillation KW - Human ecology KW - History KW - Climatic changes KW - World history KW - El-Nino-Phenomen KW - gnd KW - fast KW - El Nino Current KW - Pacific Ocean N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -