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Historical disaster experiences : towards a comparative and transcultural history of disasters across Asia and Europe / Gerrit Jasper Schenk, editor

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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
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©2017
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1 online resource (ix, 436 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
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Schenk, Gerrit J.
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Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: State of Research, Concepts, and Methods; Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps Toward a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europ ... ; Nature, Culture, and Disaster: Concepts, Research, and Questions; A Short Conceptual History of ``Disaster ́́and ``Catastrophe;́́ ``Cultures of Disaster? ́́Research and Questions; Historical Disaster Experiences: Genesis of the Volume; Learning from Disaster?; Hybridity of Historical Disasters: Nature, Society, and Power., Transculturality of Historical Disasters: Governance and the Materialisation of Glocalisation``Historical Disaster Experiences: ́́Structure of the Book, Hypotheses, and Open Questions; Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies; Cultures of Disaster; Disaster Subcultures; Disaster Cultures; Risk-Mitigating Strategies; Living with Hazard; 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; Introduction., Different Kinds of Natural DisasterConsequences and Action Taken; Conclusion; Fanā and Fasād: Perceptions and Concepts of Crises and Disasters in Fourteenth-Century Egypt; Introduction; Fasād; Fanā; Conclusion; The Black Death and the 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 Percei ... ; 1466-70: Years Without Summer?; Flooding; The Quality of Wine; Grain Harvest and Dearth; Pestilence; Effects on Politics, Culture, and War; Pitfalls and Complications; Doubting the Volcanic Eruption., Blue Sun and Black Rice in 1465: Global Events?Conclusion; Cultural Implications of Natural Disasters: Historical Reports of the Volcano Eruption of July, 1256 CE; Introduction; Sources; Abu Shāmaś Account; Other Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption; More Modern Historians Reflecting on the Events; Conclusion; When Europe Was Burning: The Multi-season Mega-drought of 1540 and Arsonist Paranoia; The Blaze of Einbeck; The Search for Culprits; The Spark of Sundsvall; Europeś Largest Natural Disaster; An Underestimated Record-breaking Event; The Meteorological Drought; The Hydrological Drought., and Year-long HeatAn Evidence-based Worst-case Scenario; Conclusion: Scapegoats of Climatic Extremes; Part III: Heaven and Earth: Searching for Reasons; ``Assur Will Suffer: ́́Predicting Disaster in Ancient Egypt; Text Samples; A) Papyrus Cairo 31222:; B) From Papyrus Vienna D 6278+; C) From Papyrus BM 10651 (Unpublished); D) Papyrus BM 10660 (Unpublished); E) Papyrus BM 10661 (Unpublished); ``Natural ́́Disasters in the Arabic Astro-meteorological Malama Handbooks; Introduction to the Malama Handbooks; Development of the Malama Genres; Popularity of the Astro-meteorological Malama.
Summary
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 cultural handling of natural disasters. Which long-lasting cultural patterns of perception, interpretation and handling of disasters can be determined? Have specific types of disasters changed the affected societies? What have people learned from disasters and what not? What adaptation and coping strategies existed? Which natural, societal and economic parameters play a part? The book not only reveals the historical depth of present practices, but also reveals possible comparisons that show globalization processes, entanglements and exchanges of ideas and practices in preMit bestem Dank im voraus-modern times.
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9783319491639 (electronic bk.)
3319491636 (electronic bk.)
9783319491622
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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