Tambora : : The Eruption That Changed the World / / Gillen D'Arcy Wood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wood, Gillen D'Arcy,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 25 halftones. 25 line illus. 1 table.

When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.Here, Gillen D'Arcy Wood traces Tambora's global and historical reach: how the volcano's three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression. Bringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, Tambora sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Measurements -- Introduction. Frankenstein's Weather -- One. The Pompeii of the East -- Two. The Little (Volcanic) Ice Age -- Three. "This End of the World Weather" -- Four. Blue Death in Bengal -- Five. The Seven Sorrows of Yunnan -- Six. The Polar Garden -- Seven. Ice Tsunami in the Alps -- Eight. The Other Irish Famine -- Nine. Hard Times at Monticello -- Epilogue. Et in Extremis Ego -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index