Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe
Language: English
Published by Springer, 2017
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2017 Springer paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1 Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps Toward a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe in the Preindustrial Era, Gerrit Jasper Schenk; 2 Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies, Greg Bankoff; 3 Several Natural Disasters in the Middle East (at the Beginning of the Eleventh Century) and Their Consequences, Juliette Rassi; 4 Fana' and Fasad: Perceptions and Concepts of Crises and Disasters in Fourteenth-Century Egypt, Sarah Bussow-Schmitz; 5 The Black Death and the Human Impact on the Environment, Stuart Borsch; 6 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?, Martin Bauch; 7 Cultural Implications of Natural Disasters: Historical Reports of the Volcano Eruption of July, 1256 CE, George Saliba; 8 When Europe Was Burning: The Multi-season Mega-drought of 1540 and Arsonist Paranoia, Christian Pfister; 9 'Assur Will Suffer': Predicting Disaster in Ancient Egypt, Joachim Friedrich Quack; 10 'Natural' Disasters in the Arabic Astro-meteorological Malhama Handbooks, Kristine Chalyan-Daffner; 11 Tracing the Will of the Stars: Indian Astrology and Divination About Natural Disasters and Threats, Audrius Beinorius; 12 Explaining the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake: The Role of Science, Astrology, and 'Rumours', Eleonor Marcussen; 13 The 1173/1759 Earthquake in Damascus and the Continuation of Architectural Tradition, Verena Daiber; 14 Living with Disaster: Aleppo and the Earthquake of 1822, Stefan Knost; 15 'The Great Fire in Cairo in 1321': Interactions Between Nature and Society, Syrinx von Hees; 16 Perceiving Urban Fire Regimes in Europe and China (1830 to 1870): British Fire Insurance Businesses and the Sudden Challenge of Globalisation, Cornel Zwierlein; 17 Economic Adaptation to Risky Environments in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of the Accrues of the Doubs in Chaussin (Jura, France) from c. 1370 to c. 1500, Thomas Labbe; 18 Measuring 'Disaster': The 'Everydayness' of Fluvial Landscapes and the Colonial State in Gangetic Diaras, 1790s-1880s, Nitin Sinha; 19 When the 'Deluge' Happened: The Flood of 1929 in the Surma-Barak Valley of Colonial Assam, Monisankar Misra; 20 Alpine Landscapes of Defence: On Modern-Vernacular Avalanche Protection Systems in the Swiss Alps, Michael Falser.…
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- Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe
- Author
- Gerrit Jasper Schenk, Greg Bankoff, Juliette Rassi, Sarah Bussow-Schmitz, Stuart Borsch, Martin Bauch, George Saliba, Christian Pfister, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Kristine Chalyan-Daffner, Audrius Beinorius, Eleonor Marcussen, Verena Daiber, Stefan Knost, Syrinx von Hees, Cornel Zwierlein, Thomas Labbe, Nitin Sinha, Monisankar Misra, and Michael Falser.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3319491628
- ISBN 13
- 9783319491622
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About the Author
Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Dr. phil.) is professor of medieval history at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany). He has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Essen and has held fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the German Historical Institutes (Rome, Paris). He is an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg). His main research interests are rituals, ceremonies, pilgrimage, environmental history, historical disaster research and urban history. Most recently he has coedited books on Historical Disasters in Context (2012), Krisengeschichte(n) (2013), Disaster as Image (2014) and Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe. Von Atlantis bis heute (2014).
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