Overview
- 2018 Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award Honorable Mention
- Examines the role of El Niño in the major social changes of human history
- Charts El Niño’s history as a global weather phenomenon and its resultant devastating weather
- Explores El Niño as a developing idea in science and society since the eighteenth century
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Millennial History of El Niño
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The Science of El Niño and the Southern Oscillation
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El Niño and Epidemic Disease
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El Niño in Contemporary Society
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About this book
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 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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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 This book represents some of his most recent, exciting and unpublished work on the life and times of El Niño.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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: El Niño in World History
Authors: Richard Grove, George Adamson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45740-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45739-4Published: 16 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68779-4Published: 05 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45740-0Published: 11 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 245
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, History of Science, Climate Change, Social History, Imperialism and Colonialism