Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World

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 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

Chapter 12 Erratum To: Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World