Overview
- Presents the first study on historical disaster experiences across Europe, the Near East and Asia in pre-industrial societies
- Focuses on long-term processes for dealing with natural disasters and on cultural learning
- Offers transcultural perspectives on historical disaster research
Part of the book series: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context (TRANSCULT)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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State of Research, Concepts, and Methods
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Materiality of Disasters: Natural Impact, Social Experience
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Heaven and Earth: Searching for Reasons
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Urban Experience: Earthquakes and Fires
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gerrit Jasper Schenk (Dr. phil.) is professor of medieval history at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany). He has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Essen and has held fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the German Historical Institutes (Rome, Paris). He is an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg). His main research interests are rituals, ceremonies, pilgrimage, environmental history, historical disaster research and urban history. Most recently he has coedited books on Historical Disasters in Context (2012), Krisengeschichte(n) (2013), Disaster as Image (2014) and Mensch. Natur. Katastrophe. Von Atlantis bis heute (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical Disaster Experiences
Book Subtitle: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe
Editors: Gerrit Jasper Schenk
Series Title: Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49163-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49162-2Published: 27 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49163-9Published: 20 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2191-656X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-6578
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 436
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Natural Hazards, Cultural History