LEADER 05469nam 22005655 450 001 9910252708403321 005 20200707015304.0 010 $a3-319-49163-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-49163-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000001118040 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-49163-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4826518 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001118040 100 $a20170320d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHistorical Disaster Experiences $eTowards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe /$fedited by Gerrit Jasper Schenk 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 436 p. 121 illus., 44 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aTranscultural Research ? Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,$x2191-656X 300 $aIncludes indexes. 311 $a3-319-49162-8 327 $aPart 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 -- Fan?? and Fas?d: 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. 330 $aHistorical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia, have of natural disasters. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and transcultural dynamics in the cultural handling of natural disasters. Which long-lasting cultural patterns of perception, interpretation and handling of disasters can be determined? Have specific types of disasters changed the affected societies? What have people learned from disasters and what not? What adaptation and coping strategies existed? Which natural, societal and economic parameters play a part? The book not only reveals the historical depth of present practices, but also reveals possible comparisons that show globalization processes, entanglements and exchanges of ideas and practices in preMit bestem Dank im voraus-modern times. 410 0$aTranscultural Research ? Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,$x2191-656X 606 $aCultural studies 606 $aNatural disasters 606 $aCivilization?History 606 $aCultural Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22040 606 $aNatural Hazards$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G32000 606 $aCultural History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/723000 615 0$aCultural studies. 615 0$aNatural disasters. 615 0$aCivilization?History. 615 14$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aNatural Hazards. 615 24$aCultural History. 676 $a363.3409 702 $aSchenk$b Gerrit Jasper$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910252708403321 996 $aHistorical Disaster Experiences$92505453 997 $aUNINA