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1 online resource |
| Contents |
The Pompeii of the East -- The little (volcanic) Ice Age -- "This end of the world weather" -- Blue death in Bengal -- The seven sorrows of Yunnan -- The polar garden -- Ice tsunami in the Alps -- The other Irish famine -- Hard times at Monticello -- Epilogue: Et in extremis ego |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on -- History -- 19th century
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Volcanoes -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 19th century
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Climatology -- Observations -- History -- 19th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Climatology
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Volcanoes -- Environmental aspects
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Weather -- Effect of volcanic eruptions on
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| SUBJECT |
Tambora, Mount (Indonesia) -- Eruption, 1815.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132173
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| Subject |
Indonesia -- Mount Tambora
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
130649480X |
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9781306494809 |
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9781400851409 |
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1400851408 |
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