Overview
- Explores the impact of climatic anomalies on human and environmental systems across the Indian Ocean World
- Traces the climate history of the macro-region from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries
- Provides historical case studies to contextualize the potential effects of global warming
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores histories of droughts and floods in the Indian Ocean World, and their connections to broader global climatic anomalies. It deploys an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the emerging field of climate history to investigate the multifaceted effects of global climatic anomalies on regions affected by the Indian Ocean Monsoon System – regularly conceived of as the macro-region’s ‘deep structure.’ Case studies explore how droughts and floods related to anomalous climatic conditions have historically affected states, societies, and ecologies across the Indian Ocean World, including in relation to food security, epidemic diseases, political (in)stability, economic change, infrastructural development, colonialism, capitalism, and scientific knowledge. Tracing longue durée patterns from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of global climatic events and their effects on the IndianOcean World. It highlights essential historical case studies for contextualizing the potential effects of global warming on the macro-region in the present and future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Philip Gooding is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World
Editors: Philip Gooding
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98198-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98197-6Published: 24 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98200-3Published: 25 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98198-3Published: 23 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 381
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, African History, Asian History, History, general