Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe (2017)
Schenk, Gerrit Jasper (Author)
Springer
Publication date: 2017
Language: English
Physical Details: 448
Historical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences of natural disasters in different cultures, from Europe across the Near East to Asia. It focuses on the pre-industrial era and on the question of similarities, differences and transcultural dynamics in the cultural handling of natural disasters. Which long-lasting cultural patterns of perception, interpretation and handling of disasters can be determined? Have specific types of disasters changed the affected societies? What have people learned from disasters and what not? What adaptation and coping strategies existed? Which natural, societal and economic parameters play a part? The book not only reveals the historical depth of present practices, but also reveals possible comparisons that show globalization processes, entanglements and exchanges of ideas and practices in pre-modern times.
...MoreReview Ovanes Akopyan (2019) Review of "Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 374-375).
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