El Niño in World History

By George Adamson and Richard Grove

Book Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Section I: A Millennial History of El Ni?o.- Chapter 2: El Ni?o in Prehistory.- Chapter 3. El Ni?o Chronology and the Little Ice Age.- Chapter 4. The 'Great El Ni?o', 1790-94.- Chapter 5: The Influence of El Ni?o on World Crises in the Nineteenth Century.- Section II: The Science of El Ni?o and the Southern Oscillation.- Chapter 6. The Discovery of ENSO.- Chapter 7. Cataloguing the El Ni?o.- Section III: El Ni?o and Epidemic Disease.- Chapter 8: El Ni?o Events and the History of Epidemic Disease Incidence.- Section IV: El Ni?o in Contemporary Society.- Chapter 9: El Ni?o in the Twentieth Century.- Chapter 10: El Ni?o in the Public Imagination.- Chapter 11: Postscript: El Ni?o and Human Future.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349687790
• ISBN13: 9781349687794
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"