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El Niño in World History

By: Richard Grove(Author), George Adamson(Author)
272 pages, 9 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Palgrave
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This book examines the role of the El Niño 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 El Niño in World History, Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El Nino: 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.

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Section I: A Millennial History of El Niño
Chapter 2: El Niño in Prehistory
Chapter 3. El Niño Chronology and the Little Ice Age
Chapter 4. The 'Great El Niño', 1790-94
Chapter 5: The Influence of El Niño on World Crises in the Nineteenth Century

Section II: The Science of El Niño and the Southern Oscillation
Chapter 6. The Discovery of ENSO
Chapter 7. Cataloguing the El Niño

Section III: El Niño and Epidemic Disease
Chapter 8: El Niño Events and the History of Epidemic Disease Incidence

Section IV: El Niño in Contemporary Society
Chapter 9: El Niño in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 10: El Niño in the Public Imagination
Chapter 11: Postscript: El Niño and Human Future

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Biography

Richard Grove is a pioneering global environmental historian whose numerous books include Green Imperialism; Ecology, Climate and Empire; and El Niño: History and Crisis. He was Professorial Fellow at Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex and ARC Professorial Fellow at Australian National University. This book represents some of his most recent, exciting and unpublished work on the life and times of El Niño.

George Adamson is a historical climatologist with a focus on El Niño and the Indian monsoon. He is Lecturer in Geography at King's College London, UK.

By: Richard Grove(Author), George Adamson(Author)
272 pages, 9 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Palgrave
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"Adamson and Grove's partner, Vinita Damodaran, are to be congratulated for their endeavors to honor Grove's work and to advance the exciting field of climate history. Engagingly written and thoughtfully illustrated, this text will become a vital reference for geographers and historians studying the state of El Niño science and its history, while highlighting potential areas for further interdisciplinary research on El Niño and the Southern Oscillation in a warming world."
– Ruth Morgan, H-Water, networks.h-net-org, January, 2019

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