Article ID: CBB782813382

Cyclonic Ecology: Sugar, Cyclone Science, and the Limits of Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean World, 1870s–1930s (2019)

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Tropical cyclones posed unique challenges to the mobility and durability of British colonial capital in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian Ocean world. Although a veritable community of scientists studying these storms in the Bay of Bengal and the Mascarene Islands developed in the second half of the nineteenth century, knowledge about cyclone generation, movement, and internal makeup remained opaque. This article analyzes one response to these limitations: the growth of agrometeorology on the African island of Mauritius. Agrometeorology, a field of study that integrated knowledge produced on cyclones with that in sugar cultivation, the industry at the heart of the island’s economy, studied how cyclonic winds and rains constituted part of a broader ecology of sugar cultivation, rather than focusing exclusively on developing models of prediction.

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Authors & Contributors
Knight, G. Roger
Carson, Sarah
Leida Fernández-Prieto
Marco Meniketti
John E. Crowley
Casey, Matthew
Concepts
Agriculture
Sugar and sugar industry
Plantations
Colonialism
Globalization; internationalization
Meteorology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Indian Ocean
Mauritius
Cuba
United States
Japan
Java (Indonesia)
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