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Natural hazards and peoples in the Indian ocean world : bordering on danger
- Title
- Natural hazards and peoples in the Indian ocean world : bordering on danger / Greg Bankoff [and] Joseph Christensen.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Series Statement
- Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 Tụ Dúc'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.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-5336
- ISBN
- 134994856X
- 9781349948567
- LCCN
- 2016942672
- OCLC
- 936533090
- Title
- Natural hazards and peoples in the Indian ocean world : bordering on danger / Greg Bankoff [and] Joseph Christensen.
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World StudiesPalgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bankoff, Greg, editor.Christensen, Joseph (Postdoctoral Fellow), editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-5336