With the help of Renee Manderville, Archisman Chaudhuri, and Philip Gooding (all IOWC), Prof. James Warren (Murdoch University) discusses his past and ongoing research into the effects of global climatic oscillations on the history of the Philippines. In this podcast episode, he examines the role of ENSO-related climatic anomalies and typhoons on the colonial monocrops of tobacco (Spanish era) and sugar (American era). In these contexts, he also responds to questions on the lives of indigenous populations and on colonial science.
For more on Prof. Warren’s work, see:
http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/james-warren/ and
https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/view/author/Warren,_James.html
Prof. Warren has also provided us with some images that may be of interest and use to listeners:
Map: The Philippines
Map: Sulu and Celebes Seas
Map: Iranun Balangingi raiding
Map: Typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean
Common Typhoon Paths
“Eye of the storm”
Flattened canefields, 1899
Barocyclonometer (1)
Barocyclonometer (2)
Jose Algue (1856-1930), Jesuit meteorologist