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

390 Pages·2022·8.593 MB·English

by  Philip Gooding

PALGRAVE SERIES IN
INDIAN OCEAN WORLD STUDIES
Droughts, Floods, and
Global Climatic Anomalies in
the Indian Ocean World
Edited by
Philip Gooding
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Series Editor
Gwyn Campbell, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University,
Montreal, QC, Canada
This is the first scholarly series devoted to the study of the Indian Ocean
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Droughts, Floods,
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Montreal, QC, Canada
ISSN 2730-9703 ISSN 2730-9711 (electronic)
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Acknowledgements
It is somewhat unusual to write an acknowledgements section for an
edited volume, but on this occasion, I wish to break with convention.
Asreadersoftheintroductorychapterwilldiscover,thisbook’sorigins
lie in mid-2019. A lot has changed since then. Originally, the plan was
to develop a project leading to a publication through an international
conference at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, enti-
tled‘Drought,floods,andrainfallanomaliesintheIndianOceanWorld.’
That conference was scheduled to be held in May 2020. For obvious
reasons, it did not go ahead. With this in mind, I wish to state on
recordhowthankfulIamtoallofthecontributorsforseeingthisproject
through.Thisincludesallthosewhorespondedtotheoriginalconference
call and those who joined at a later date. Thank you for your patience,
your resilience, and your hard work, especially given the challenging
circumstances.
IalsowishtothankPeterHyndforhisinstrumentalroleindeveloping
the conference theme and for his encouragement thereafter. Thanks also
to Sam Stocker, Supraja Ganesh, Chitra Gopalraj and their colleagues at
Palgrave and Springer for turning the manuscript into this book. Thanks
furthermore to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC) of Canada whose funds via a Partnership Grant held by Prof.
Gwyn Campbell and an Insight Development Grant held by myself were
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essentialtotheeditorshipofthisbook.Andthankyoutomyfamily,espe-
cially to Émilie, Adèle, and Mathis, for all their love, particularly in the
last two years.
Philip Gooding
Contents
1 Introduction: Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic
Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World 1
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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 Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 31
Silvia Freiin Ebner von Eschenbach
3 EpidemicandEnvironmentalChangeinChina’sEarly
Modern Maritime World During the ‘Little Ice Age’
(ca. 1500–1680) 63
Angela Schottenhammer
4 The El Nino of 1685–1687 in Golconda
and Northern Coromandel, South Asia: Drought,
Famine, and Mughal Wars 97
Archisman Chaudhuri
5 Rainfall and Floods in the Upper Zambezi Basin,
1680s to 1910s 127
William Gervase Clarence-Smith
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6 Droughts and Political Crisis in Imerina, Madagascar,
1825–1829 165
Gwyn Campbell
7 The Great Ilocos Flood of 1867 199
James Francis Warren
8 El Niño and the Human–Environment Nexus:
Drought and Vulnerability in Singapore, 1877–1911 231
Fiona Williamson
9 ENSO, IOD, Drought, and Floods in Equatorial
Eastern Africa, 1876–1878 259
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10 A Forgotten Drought and Famine in East Africa,
1883–1885 289
Stephen J. Rockel
11 ‘A Drought so Extraordinary’: The 1911 ENSO
and Disaster Nationalism in the American Colonial
Philippines 345
Theresa Ventura
Correction to: Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic
Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World C1
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Index 377