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Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Preface; 1. Introduction: Disasters and History; 2. Classification and Concepts; 3. History as a Laboratory: Materials and Methods; 4. Disaster Preconditions and Pressures; 5. Disaster Responses; 6. Effects of Disasters; 7. Disaster History and/in the Anthropocene.
Offers the first comprehensive overview of research into hazards and disasters from a historical perspective. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
'Disasters and History is a unique expert review of approaches and
findings of historical disaster research — the first of its kind.
This path-breaking achievement will set the standards for a long
time to come. What is more, it places the study of disasters right
in the centre of our general understanding of history.' Franz
Mauelshagen, co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Climate
History
'This wide-ranging and ambitious book offers a new conceptual
framework for understanding when and how natural hazards—in the
form of extreme weather events, epidemics, or geological shocks—can
be prevented from turning into disasters. A very timely book for
these uncertain times.' Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People is
Wrong: Essays on the History and Future of Famines
'Disasters and History is a deeply researched volume by the
foremost scholars from the field of disaster history. This book
adds historical depth and breadth not only to the wider field of
disaster studies, but also to our understanding the current
predicament of the Anthropocene and a crisis such as the
Corona-Pandemic.' Eleonora Rohland, author of Changes in the Air:
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
'A clear message that early modern Europeans prepared for
disasters. This message is linked to present-day resilience studies
and flanked by observations on historical disaster responses beyond
Europe. Historical studies engaging contemporary concerns offers
potential inspiration for facing the future.' R. Bin Wong, author
(with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal) of Before and Beyond Divergence: The
Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe
'Disasters and History makes a timely contribution to disaster
scholarship and reaffirms the important contribution that history
can, and should, make in future research and disaster management.'
Margaret Cook, H-Soz-Kult
'The relevance of Disasters and History to every conceivable
disaster, whether past, present, or future, makes it an invaluable
resource for interdisciplinary scholars of climate and
environment.' Rolf Bauer, The Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
'… it is important that this book be made available to anyone who
might benefit from its insights. And, indeed, it does provide
insights that can be beneficial to the puzzled policymaker who is
tasked with reducing disaster risk, improving disaster risk
management or the post-disaster emergency phase, or with designing
policies for long-term community recovery.' Ilan Noy, EH.Net
'… a concise, deliberately brief, but nevertheless extremely
important study on the current debate about natural and manmade
crises and catastrophes from a decidedly historical perspective
primarily of the vulnerability of societies in the past, but also
their efforts to take resilience into account. In this sense and
because of their successful combination it also makes a significant
- and very stimulating! - contribution to the collection of
scientific and historical data and a methodologically sound and
meaningful historical resilience research. (in German)' Markus A.
Denzel, Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
'A handbook that needs to be on every shelf.' Fiona Williamson,
Journal of Disaster Studies
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