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Natural Disasters Cultural Responses Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History Publications of the German Historical Institute 1st Edition by Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister ISBN 0739124153 978-0739124154

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Publisher: Lexington Books
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File size: 1.7 MB
Pages: 394
Author: Christof Mauch
ISBN: 9780739124154, 9780739124161, 0739124153, 0739124161
Language: English
Year: 2009

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Author: Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister

Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by natural disasters-seven times the number of people who are affected by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awareness of natural disasters and of their impact on both local and global communities. Hollywood has also produced numerous disaster movies in recent years, some of which have become blockbusters.

This volume demonstrates that natural catastrophes-earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc.-have exercised a vast impact on humans throughout history and in almost every part of the world. It argues that human attitudes toward catastrophes have changed over time. Surprisingly, this has not necessarily led to a reduction of exposure or risk. The organization of the book resembles a journey around the globe-from Europe to North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, and from the Pacific through South America and Mexico to the United States. While natural disasters appear everywhere on the globe, different cultures, societies, and nations have adopted specific styles for coping with disaster. Indeed, how humans deal with catastrophes depends largely on social and cultural patterns, values, religious belief systems, political institutions, and economic structures. The roles that catastrophes play in society and the meanings they are given vary from one region to the next; they differ-and this is one of the principal arguments of this book-from one cultural, political, and geographic space to the next. The essays collected here help us to understand not only how people in different times throughout history have learned to cope with disaster but also how humans in different parts of the world have developed specific cultural, social, and technological strategies for doing so.

Table of contents: 

1. Learning from Nature-induced Disasters: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies from Western Europe
2. Disaster and Political Culture in Germany Since 1500
3. Summer Frost: A Natural Hazard with Fatal Consequences in Preindustrial Finland
4. Society and Natural Risks in France, 1500-2000: Changing Historical Perspectives
5. Humanitarianism and Colonialism: Religious Responses to the Algerian Drought and Famine of 1866–1870
6. The Floods of Baghdad: Cultural and Technological Responses
7. Interpreting Earthquakes in Medieval Islamic Texts
8. Famine in Bengal: A Comparison of the 1770 Famine in Bengal and the 1897 Famine in Chotanagpur
9. "Heaven-Sent" Disasters in Late-Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond
10. Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines
11. The Parana River Floods during the Spanish-Colonial Period: Impact and Responses
12. Documenting Disaster: Archival Investigations of Climate, Crisis, and Catastrophe in Colonial Mexico
13. American Disasters during the Twentieth Century: The Case of New Jersey

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