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Title A world of water : rain, rivers and sea in Southeast Asian histories / edited by Peter Boomgaard
Published Leiden : KITLV Press, 2007

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Description viii, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 240
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 240
Contents Preface In a state of flux : water as a deadly and a life-giving force in Southeast Asia / Peter Boombaard -- Geography as destiny? : the role of water in Southeast Asian history / Heather Sutherland -- Of gods and monsters : indigenous sea cosmologies, promiscuous geographies and the depths of local sovereignty / Sandra Pannell -- Toothy tale : a short history of shark fisheries and trade in shark products in twentieth-century Indonesia / Manon Osseweijer -- Tale of two centuries : the globalization of maritime raiding and piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries / James F. Warren -- Storms of history : water, hazard and society in the Philippines, 1565-1930 / Greg Bankoff -- Communal irrigation : a comparative perspective / Robert C. Hunt -- Geographical explanations for the distribution of irrigation institutions : cases from Southeast Asia / Willem Wolters -- Water and rice in early Java and Bali / Jan Wisseman Christie -- Contestation over a life-giving force : water rights and conflicts, with special reference to Indonesia / Franz von Benda-Beckmann -- Role of waterborne diseases in Malaysia / Foong Kin -- Privatizing water : the Jakarta concession and the limits of contract / Okke Braadbaart -- Politics of environmental and water pollution in East Java / Anton Lucas and Arief W. Djati
Notes "This book started life as a workshop organised from 14-16 June 2001 as one of the features of the KITV 150-year jubilee." -- Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ecohydrology -- Southeast Asia -- History.
Natural resources -- Southeast Asia -- Management -- History.
Water and civilization.
Water in agriculture -- Southeast Asia.
Water -- Pollution -- Southeast Asia.
Water -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia.
SUBJECT Asia, Southeastern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008627 -- Environmental conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Boomgaard, P., 1946-
Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
LC no. 2008365083
ISBN 906718294X