Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on Danger

.1. Revisiting Southeast Asian history with geology: some demographic consequences of a dangerous environment
Anthony Reid..- 2. '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 Tana Li..- 3. 'The most horrible of evils': Social responses to drought and famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857 George Adamson..- 4. Philippine Typhoons since the seventeenth century James Francis Warren..- 5. Bushfire in Madagascar: natural hazard, useful tool and change agent Christian Kull..- 6. Emperor T c's 'Bad Weather': Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883 Kathryn Dyt..- 7. Storm over San Isidro: Repeated disasters and civic community culture in nineteenth century Philippines Greg Bankoff..- 8. Disaster management and colonialism in the Indonesian archipelago, 1840-1920 Alicia Schrikker..- 9. Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s-1920s Matthew S. Hopper..- 10. Their inescapable portion? Cyclones, disaster relief, and the political economy of pearlshelling in Northwest Australia, 1865-1935 Joseph Christensen.