El Niño in World History

• Main Authors: Grove, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Adamson, George (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
• Subjects: World history.; Climate change.; History.; Social history.; Imperialism.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; History of Science.; Climate Change.; Social History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

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 si...

Table of 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.