Natural hazards and peoples in the Indian ocean world : bordering on danger / Greg Bankoff [and] Joseph Christensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bankoff, Greg, editor.

Christensen, Joseph (Postdoctoral Fellow), editor.

Series:

Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies

Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural disasters--Social aspects--Indian Ocean Region.

Natural disasters.

Natural disasters--Social aspects.

Indian Ocean Region.

Physical Description:

xv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Contents:

Bordering on Danger: An Introduction

Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Environment

'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

'The Most Horrible of Evils': Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857

Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century

Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent

Emperor Tự Dức's 'Bad Weather' Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883

Storm over San Isidro: Repeated 'disasters' and Civic Community Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines

Disaster Management and Colonialism in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1840-1920

Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s to 1920s

Their Inescapable Portion? Cyclones, Disaster Relief, and the Political Economy of Pearlshelling in Northwest Australia, 1865-1935.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

134994856X

9781349948567

OCLC:

936533090