Historical Disaster Experiences : Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe

Historical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia, have of natural disasters. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and transcultural dynamics in the cu...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Schenk, Gerrit Jasper (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesTranscultural Research - Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
Subjects
Social sciences.
Civilization > History.
Natural disasters.
Cultural studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319491639
ISSN2191-656X
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-49163-9
Physical DescriptionIX, 436 p. 121 illus., 44 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: State of Research, Concepts and Methods
  • Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters across Asia and Europe in the Pre-industrial Era
  • Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies
  • Part II: Materiality of Disasters: Natural Impact, Social Experience
  • Several Natural Disasters in the Middle East (at the Beginning of the Eleventh Century) and their Consequences
  • Fanāʾ and Fasād: Perceptions and Concepts of Crises and Disasters in Fourteenth-century Egypt
  • The Black Death and Human Impact on the Environment
  • The day the sun turned blue. A volcanic eruption in the early 1460s and its possible climatic impact - a natural disaster perceived globally in the late Middle Ages?
  • Cultural Implications of Natural Disasters: Historical Reports of the Volcano Eruption of July, 1256 A.D
  • When Europe was burning. The multi-seasonal mega-drought of 1540 and the arsonist paranoia
  • Part III: Heaven and Earth: Searching for Reasons
  • Assur will suffer: Predicting disaster in Ancient Egypt
  • 'Natural' Disasters in the Arabic Astro-meteorological Malhama Handbooks
  • Tracing the Will of the Stars: Indian Astrology and Divination about Natural Disasters and Threats
  • Explaining the Bihar Earthquake of 1934: The Role of Science, Astrology and 'Rumours'
  • Part IV: Urban Experience: Earthquakes and Fire
  • The 1173/1759 Earthquake in Damascus and the Continuation of Architectural Tradition
  • Living with Disaster: Aleppo and the Earthquake of 1822
  • 'The Great Fire in Cairo of 1321' - Interactions between Nature and Society
  • Perceiving Urban Fire Regimes in Europe and China, 1830s to 1870s: British Fire Insurance Businesses and the Sudden Challenge of Globalisation
  • Part V: Frequent Experience and Adaptations: Floods and Landscapes of Defence
  • Economic adaptation to risky environment in the late Middle Ages. The case of the 'accrues' of the Doubs in Chaussin (Jura, France) from c. 1370 to c. 1500
  • Measuring 'disaster'? The 'everydayness' of fluvial landscapes and the colonial state in Gangetic diaras, 1790s-1880s
  • When the 'Deluge' Happened: The Flood of 1929 in the Surma-Barak Valley of Colonial Assam
  • Alpine landscapes of defence - On modern-vernacular avalanche protection systems in the Swiss Alps.

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