| Book Review | Journal of World History, 15.1

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El Niño in History: Storming through the Ages. By CÉSAR N. CAVIEDES. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Pp. xiv +279. $24.95 (cloth)

In 1588 a severe storm dismantled the Spanish Armada, eliminating it as a threat to England. This weather story is familiar to all of us educated in the Anglophone world. If we were Japanese schoolchildren, our climatic salvation story would be the Kamikaze—the Divine Wind—that destroyed the Mongol forces invading Japan. In recent times, climate's best-known role in world history is as the cruel Russian winter of 1942, the nemesis of Hitler's Russian campaign. This, of course, was a reprise of the 1812 winter's decimation of Napoleon's army.

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