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Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger de Greg Bankoff

Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

Editat de Greg Bankoff, Joseph Christensen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 iul 2016
Thisbook examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge throughexposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian OceanWorld history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural andsocial sciences, presenting case-studies that deal with a diverse range ofnatural hazards – fire in Madagascar, drought in India, cyclones and typhoons inOman, Australia and the Philippines, climatic variability, storms and flood inVietnam and the Philippines, and volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamisin Indonesia. These chapters, written by leading international historians,respond to a growing need to understand the ways in which natural hazards shapesocial, economic and political development of the Indian Ocean World, a regionof the globe that is highly susceptible to the impacts of seismic activity,extreme weather, and climate change.  

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349948567
ISBN-10: 134994856X
Pagini: 323
Ilustrații: XV, 318 p. 27 illus., 25 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Revisiting Southeast Asian history with geology: some demographic consequences of a dangerous environment Anthony Reid.- 2. ‘The sea becomes mulberry fields and mulberry fields become the sea’: dikes in the eastern Red River delta, c.200 BCE to the Twenty-first century CE Tana Li.- 3. ‘The most horrible of evils’: Social responses to drought and famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857 George Adamson.- 4. Philippine Typhoons since the seventeenth century James Francis Warren.- 5. Bushfire in Madagascar: natural hazard, useful tool and change agent Christian Kull.- 6. Emperor Tự Đức’s ‘Bad Weather’: Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883 Kathryn Dyt.- 7. Storm over San Isidro: Repeated disasters and civic community culture in nineteenth century Philippines Greg Bankoff.- 8. Disaster management and colonialism in the Indonesian archipelago, 1840-1920 Alicia Schrikker.- 9. Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s-1920s Matthew S. Hopper.- 10. Their inescapable portion? Cyclones, disaster relief, and the political economy of pearlshelling in Northwest Australia, 1865-1935. 

Notă biografică

Greg Bankoffis Professor of Modern History at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Hehas worked and published extensively on both the historical dimension of howsocieties adapt to risk as well as engaged with contemporary civil defence andemergency management practices in Asia, Australasia and more recently inEurope. His most recent publications include co-authoring The Red Cross’s World Disaster Report 2014: Culture and Riskand a companion coedited volume entitled Culturesand Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction(2015).
 
JosephChristensenis a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University,Australia, where he works in the fields of maritime and environmental history.He obtained a BA and PhD from the University of Western Australia. He isco-editor of Historical Perspectives ofFisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific (2014).

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Thisbook examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge throughexposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian OceanWorld history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural andsocial sciences, presenting case-studies that deal with a diverse range ofnatural hazards – fire in Madagascar, drought in India, cyclones and typhoons inOman, Australia and the Philippines, climatic variability, storms and flood inVietnam and the Philippines, and volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamisin Indonesia. These chapters, written by leading international historians,respond to a growing need to understand the ways in which natural hazards shapesocial, economic and political development of the Indian Ocean World, a regionof the globe that is highly susceptible to the impacts of seismic activity,extreme weather, and climate change.