TY - BOOK AU - Boomgaard,P. TI - A world of water: rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories SN - 906718294X AV - QH541.15.E19 W67 2007 U1 - 304.20959 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Leiden - Boston PB - KITLV Press KW - Ecohydrology KW - Southeast Asia KW - History KW - Water KW - Social aspects KW - Water in agriculture KW - Pollution KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; In a state of flux : water as a deadly and a life-giving force in Southeast Asia; Peter Boombaard --; Geography as destiny? : the role of water in Southeast Asian history; Heather Sutherland --; Of gods and monsters : indigenous sea cosmologies, promiscuous geographies and the depths of local sovereignty; Sandra Pannell --; Toothy tale : a short history of shark fisheries and trade in shark products in twentieth-century Indonesia; Manon Osseweijer --; Tale of two centuries : the globalization of maritime raiding and piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries; James F. Warren --; Storms of history : water, hazard and society in the Philippines, 1565-1930; Greg Bankoff --; Communal irrigation : a comparative perspective; Robert C. Hunt --; Geographical explanations for the distribution of irrigation institutions : cases from Southeast Asia; Willem Wolters --; Water and rice in early Java and Bali; Jan Wisseman Christie --; Contestation over a life-giving force : water rights and conflicts, with special reference to Indonesia; Franz von Benda-Beckmann --; Role of waterborne diseases in Malaysia; Foong Kin --; Privatizing water : the Jakarta concession and the limits of contract; Okke Braadbaart --; Politics of environmental and water pollution in East Java; Anton Lucas and Arief W. Djati UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30618 ER -