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Title Natural hazards and peoples in the Indian Ocean world : bordering on danger / Greg Bankoff, Joseph Christensen, editors
Published [New York] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies
Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies.
Contents ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Emperor Tự Đức's 'Bad Weather': Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883; Introduction; Disasters Under the Reign of Tự Đức; 'The Miseries of the People During the Reign of Tự Đức': The Historiography of Disaster Relief; Biblical Interpretations of Disasters in Missionary Letters; 'Gazing up at Clouds': Tự Đức's Response to Disasters; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Storm over San Isidro: Repeated 'disasters' and Civic Community Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines ; Repeated 'disasters'; Storm over San Isidro
Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Maps; Chapter 1: Bordering on Danger: An Introduction ; An Ocean of Risk; Bordering on Danger; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Environment ; Southeast Asia Takes Shape in a Quiet Century; Volcanic Disruptions to Population; Estimating Longer-Term Effects; Tsunamis of Early Modern Sumatra and Java; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography
Chapter 3: '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 CEThe Earlier Dikes in the Eastern Delta; Hypothesis: The Shifting Red River and the Erosion of the Eastern Coast; The Disappearing Coast: The Case of Hai Hau; Outmigration from the Eastern Delta; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: 'The Most Horrible of Evils': Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857; Introduction; A Note on the Political Economy of the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857
Droughts in Western India, 1782-1857'Paternalistic' Governance and Warfare: 1790-92 and 1803; Famine and the Market: 1812 and 1824; Riot and Ryots: 1832-33; Charity and Water Shortage: 1838 and Beyond; Social Responses to Climatic Variability in Western India; Social Vulnerability to Climatic Variability; Adaptation Measures; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century ; Typhoons: Introduction; Definition of a Typhoon; Where They Come From; Seasonal Patterns; Monthly Distribution; Wind Systems and Wind Speeds; El Niño and La Niña
Impact on AgricultureCulture of Response/Culture of Mitigation; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent ; Introduction; Biospheric Fire Before the First Humans; Foraging Fires (ca. 4000 Years Ago to Recent); Agricultural Fires (ca. 1500 Years Ago to Present); Pastoral Fires (ca. 1100 Years Ago to Present); Fire Suppression for a 'Modern' Economy (ca. 1900 to Present); Fire Suppression for Nature Conservation (1920s to Present); Towards a Compromise: 1940s to 1960s; Resurgent Fire Exclusion for Nature Conservation, 1969 to Present
Summary This book examines the dangers and the patterns of adaptation that emerge through exposure to risk on a daily basis. By addressing the influence of environmental factors in Indian Ocean World history, the collection reaches across the boundaries of the natural and social sciences, presenting case-studies that deal with a diverse range of natural hazards - fire in Madagascar, drought in India, cyclones and typhoons in Oman, Australia and the Philippines, climatic variability, storms and flood in Vietnam and the Philippines, and volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis in Indonesia. These chapters, written by leading international historians, respond to a growing need to understand the ways in which natural hazards shape social, economic and political development of the Indian Ocean World, a region of the globe that is highly susceptible to the impacts of seismic activity, extreme weather, and climate change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 18, 2016)
Subject Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- Indian Ocean Region
General & world history.
Sociology.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Asian history.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Indian Ocean Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bankoff, Greg, editor.
Christensen, Joseph (Postdoctoral Fellow), editor.
ISBN 9781349948574
1349948578
134994856X
9781349948567