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050 00 $aGB5014$b.N384 2009
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245 00 $aNatural disasters, cultural responses :$bcase studies toward a global environmental history /$cedited by Christof Mauch and Christian Pfister.
260 $aLanham, MD :$bLexington Books,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axi, 382 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe German Historical Institute studies in international environmental history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction /$rChristof Mauch -- $g1.$tLearning from Nature-Induced Disasters: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies from Western Europe /$rChristian Pfister -- $g2.$tDisaster and Political Culture in Germany since 1500 /$rFranz Mauelshagen -- $g3.$tSummer Frost: A Natural Hazard with Fatal Consequences in Preindustrial Finland /$rTimo Myllyntaus -- $g4.$tSociety and Natural Risks in France, 1500-2000: Changing Historical Perspectives /$rRene Favier and Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset -- $g5.$tHumanitarianism and Colonialism: Religious Responses to the Algerian Drought and Famine of 1866-1870 /$rBertrand Taithe -- $g6.$tThe Floods of Baghdad: Cultural and Technological Responses /$rOtfried Weintritt -- $g7.$tInterpreting Earthquakes in Medieval Islamic Texts /$rAnna A. Akasay -- $g8.$tFamine in Bengal: A Comparison of the 1770 Famine in Bengal and the 1897 Famine in Chotanagpur /$rVinita Damodaran -- $g9.$t"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond /$rAndrea Tanku -- $g10.$tCultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines /$rGreg Bankoff -- $g11.$tThe Parana River Floods during the Spanish Colonial Period: Impact and Responses /$rMaria del Rosario Prieto -- $g12.$tDocumenting Disaster: Archival Investigations of Climate, Crisis, and Catastrophe in Colonial Mexico /$rGeorgina H. Bndfield, Sarah J. Davies, Isabel Fernandez Tejeda, Sarah E. Metcalfe and Sarah L. O'Hara -- $g13.$tAmerican Disasters during the Twentieth Century: The Case of New Jersey /$rJames K. Mitchell -- $tAfterword /$rChristian Pfister.
520 1 $a"This collection of essays testifies to the profound impact that earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other such events have had on humans throughout history in every part of the world. Several contributors argue that the experience of catastrophe has changed humans' behavior and perceptions over time without necessarily reducing their degree of exposure or risk. The book includes case studies from Western Europe, Scandinavia, Algeria, the Middle East, China, India, the Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, and the East Coast of the United States, ranging from the medieval through the modern period. While natural disasters occur around the globe, different cultures, societies, and regions have adopted specific methods and technologies for managing local hazards and for surviving catastrophic natural events. Indeed, how humans deal with catastrophes depends largely on social and cultural patterns, values, belief systems, political institutions, and economic structures. The roles that natural disasters play in society and the meanings they are given vary from one political and geographic space to the next. The essays collected here help us to understand not only how people across the centuries have learned to cope with disaster but also how communities in different parts of the world have developed cultural, social, and technological strategies for doing so."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aNatural disasters.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090214
650 0 $aDisaster relief.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038299
700 1 $aMauch, Christof.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87818518
700 1 $aPfister, Christian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81045976
830 0 $aInternational environmental history.
852 00 $bbar$hGB5014$i.N384 2009