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DOI	10.1007/s10584-018-2352-6
	Narratives of nineteenth century drought in southern Africa in different historical source types
	Nash D.J.; Klein J.; Endfield G.H.; Pribyl K.; Adamson G.C.D.; Grab S.W.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	467
结束页码	485
卷号	152 期号:2020-03-04
英文摘要	Single- to multiple-year drought episodes posed significant challenges for agrarian communities across southern Africa during the nineteenth century and hence are widely recorded in a variety of historical documents. However, the ways in which droughts are articulated, and the focus of individual accounts, vary considerably between different authors and historical source types. This study draws on a range of documentary source types—specifically newspapers, letters, reports and diaries—to explore the varied narratives associated with three protracted droughts (those of 1861–1863, 1876–1879 and 1895–1897) that affected large areas of the subcontinent. The analysis spans four case study areas—present day KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Lesotho, Malawi and the southern Kalahari (Botswana and South Africa)—which were investigated as part of different interdisciplinary projects. We explore issues common to all case study areas, including (i) how specific drought events are framed and (ii) what is and is not reported about individual droughts across different source types. We conclude that different source types in the subcontinent may be more or less appropriate for addressing the specific objectives of historical climatology, particularly in relation to historical drought. Sources such as newspapers and weather diaries are rich in qualitative and quantitative observations suitable for the reconstruction of temporal and spatial patterns of weather and climate, as well as climate-related natural disasters. In contrast, letters, reports and personal journals, especially those written by missionaries, provide additional qualitative narratives through which to investigate the vulnerability of past societies and economies to climate variations, and to explore past discourses and social representations of climate. While studies of this kind have been published for European and American source types, this is the first systematic exploration of documentary sources for the historical climatology of Africa. It should therefore provide a guide for climate history studies elsewhere in the continent, or other regions where written records are absent prior to the arrival of European colonists. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Climatology; Disasters; Newsprint; Agrarian communities; Documentary sources; Historical climatologies; Historical documents; Interdisciplinary project; Social representations; Systematic exploration; Temporal and spatial pattern; Drought; climate change; documentary source; drought stress; historical perspective; nineteenth century; publishing; reconstruction; vulnerability; KwaZulu-Natal; Lesotho; Malawi; South Africa
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147505
作者单位	Centre for Aquatic Environments, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, United Kingdom; School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa; Department of Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, 2418, Norway; Department of History, University of Liverpool, 8-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7WZ, United Kingdom; Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, Bern, 3012, Switzerland; Department of Geography, King’s College London, Bush House (North East Wing), 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Nash D.J.,Klein J.,Endfield G.H.,et al. Narratives of nineteenth century drought in southern Africa in different historical source types[J],2019,152(2020-03-04).
APA	Nash D.J.,Klein J.,Endfield G.H.,Pribyl K.,Adamson G.C.D.,&Grab S.W..(2019).Narratives of nineteenth century drought in southern Africa in different historical source types.Climatic Change,152(2020-03-04).
MLA	Nash D.J.,et al."Narratives of nineteenth century drought in southern Africa in different historical source types".Climatic Change 152.2020-03-04(2019).