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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 2017 Springer paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1 Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps Toward a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe in the Preindustrial Era, Gerrit Jasper Schenk; 2 Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies, Greg Bankoff; 3 Several Natural Disasters in the Middle East (at the Beginning of the Eleventh Century) and Their Consequences, Juliette Rassi; 4 Fana' and Fasad: Perceptions and Concepts of Crises and Disasters in Fourteenth-Century Egypt, Sarah Bussow-Schmitz; 5 The Black Death and the Human Impact on the Environment, Stuart Borsch; 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?, Martin Bauch; 7 Cultural Implications of Natural Disasters: Historical Reports of the Volcano Eruption of July, 1256 CE, George Saliba; 8 When Europe Was Burning: The Multi-season Mega-drought of 1540 and Arsonist Paranoia, Christian Pfister; 9 'Assur Will Suffer': Predicting Disaster in Ancient Egypt, Joachim Friedrich Quack; 10 'Natural' Disasters in the Arabic Astro-meteorological Malhama Handbooks, Kristine Chalyan-Daffner; 11 Tracing the Will of the Stars: Indian Astrology and Divination About Natural Disasters and Threats, Audrius Beinorius; 12 Explaining the 1934 Bihar-Nepal Earthquake: The Role of Science, Astrology, and 'Rumours', Eleonor Marcussen; 13 The 1173/1759 Earthquake in Damascus and the Continuation of Architectural Tradition, Verena Daiber; 14 Living with Disaster: Aleppo and the Earthquake of 1822, Stefan Knost; 15 'The Great Fire in Cairo in 1321': Interactions Between Nature and Society, Syrinx von Hees; 16 Perceiving Urban Fire Regimes in Europe and China (1830 to 1870): British Fire Insurance Businesses and the Sudden Challenge of Globalisation, Cornel Zwierlein; 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, Thomas Labbe; 18 Measuring 'Disaster': The 'Everydayness' of Fluvial Landscapes and the Colonial State in Gangetic Diaras, 1790s-1880s, Nitin Sinha; 19 When the 'Deluge' Happened: The Flood of 1929 in the Surma-Barak Valley of Colonial Assam, Monisankar Misra; 20 Alpine Landscapes of Defence: On Modern-Vernacular Avalanche Protection Systems in the Swiss Alps, Michael Falser.…

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