Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World

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 Indian Ocean World. It highlights essential historical case studies for contextualizing the potential effects of global warming on the macro-region in the present and future.Philip Gooding is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Autorentext

Philip Gooding is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World - Philip Gooding.- 2. The Economy of Floods and Inundations in the Southern Song Capital Prefecture Lin'an (Hangzhou) on the Shore of the Zhe River Estuary and the Hangzhou Bay in Southeastern China during the 12th and 13th Centuries - Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach.- 3. Epidemic and Environmental Change in China's Early Modern Maritime World during the "Little Ice Age" (ca. 1500-1680) - Angela Schottenhammer.- 4. The El Nino of 1685-1687 in Golconda and northern Coromandel, South Asia: Drought, famine, and Mughal wars - Archisman Chaudhuri -.- 5. Rainfall and Floods in the Upper Zambezi Basin, 1680s-1910s - William G. Clarence-Smith.- 6. Droughts and Political Crisis in Imerina, Madagascar, 1825-29 - Gwyn Campbell.- 7. The Great Ilocos Flood of 1867 - James Francis Warren.- 8. El Niño and the human-environment nexus: Drought and vulnerability in Singapore, 1877-1911 - Fiona Williamson.- 9. ENSO, IOD, Drought, and Floods in Equatorial East Africa, 1876-8 - Philip Gooding.- 10. A Forgotten Drought and Famine in East Africa, 1883-85 - Stephen J. Rockel.- 11. 'A Drought So Extraordinary': The 1911 ENSO and Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines - Theresa Ventura.