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Historical Disaster Experiences

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    Chapter 1 Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps Toward a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe in the Preindustrial Era
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    Chapter 2 Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies
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    Chapter 3 Several Natural Disasters in the Middle East (at the Beginning of the Eleventh Century) and Their Consequences
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    Chapter 4 Fanāʾ and Fasād: Perceptions and Concepts of Crises and Disasters in Fourteenth-Century Egypt
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    Chapter 5 The Black Death and the Human Impact on the Environment
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    Chapter 6 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?
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    Chapter 7 Cultural Implications of Natural Disasters: Historical Reports of the Volcano Eruption of July, 1256 CE
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    Chapter 8 When Europe Was Burning: The Multi-season Mega-drought of 1540 and Arsonist Paranoia
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    Chapter 9 “Assur Will Suffer:” Predicting Disaster in Ancient Egypt
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    Chapter 10 “Natural” Disasters in the Arabic Astro-meteorological Malḥama Handbooks
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    Chapter 11 Tracing the Will of the Stars: Indian Astrology and Divination About Natural Disasters and Threats
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    Chapter 12 Explaining the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake: The Role of Science, Astrology, and “Rumours”
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    Chapter 13 The 1173/1759 Earthquake in Damascus and the Continuation of Architectural Tradition
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    Chapter 14 Living with Disaster: Aleppo and the Earthquake of 1822
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    Chapter 15 “The Great Fire in Cairo in 1321:” Interactions Between Nature and Society
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    Chapter 16 Perceiving Urban Fire Regimes in Europe and China (1830 to 1870): British Fire Insurance Businesses and the Sudden Challenge of Globalisation
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    Chapter 17 Economic Adaptation to Risky Environments in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of the Accrues of the Doubs in Chaussin (Jura, France) from c. 1370 to c. 1500
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    Chapter 18 Measuring “Disaster”: The “Everydayness” of Fluvial Landscapes and the Colonial State in Gangetic Diaras, 1790s–1880s
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    Chapter 19 When the “Deluge” Happened: The Flood of 1929 in the Surma–Barak Valley of Colonial Assam
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    Chapter 20 Alpine Landscapes of Defence: On Modern-Vernacular Avalanche Protection Systems in the Swiss Alps
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Chapter title
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?
Chapter number 6
Book title
Historical Disaster Experiences
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49163-9_6
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-949162-2, 978-3-31-949163-9
Authors

Martin Bauch, Bauch, Martin

Editors

Gerrit Jasper Schenk

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Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 20%
Student > Bachelor 2 20%
Researcher 2 20%
Student > Master 1 10%
Other 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 40%
Linguistics 1 10%
Decision Sciences 1 10%
Engineering 1 10%
Unknown 3 30%