Chapter 1 Bordering on Danger: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Environment

Chapter 3 ‘The Sea Becomes Mulberry Fields and Mulberry Fields Become the Sea’: Dikes in the Eastern Red River Delta, c.200 BCE to the Twenty-First Century CE

Chapter 4 ‘The Most Horrible of Evils’: Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782–1857

Chapter 5 Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 6 Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent

Chapter 7 Emperor Tự Đức’s ‘Bad Weather’: Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847–1883

Chapter 8 Storm over San Isidro: Repeated ‘disasters’ and Civic Community Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines

Chapter 9 Disaster Management and Colonialism in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1840–1920

Chapter 10 Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s to 1920s

Chapter 11 Their Inescapable Portion? Cyclones, Disaster Relief, and the Political Economy of Pearlshelling in Northwest Australia, 1865–1935