A world of water : rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories / edited by Peter Boomgaard.

Contributor(s): Boomgaard, P, 1946-2017
Language: English Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 240Publisher: Leiden - Boston : KITLV Press, 2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 906718294X; 9789067182942; 9789004254015Subject(s): Ecohydrology -- Southeast Asia -- History | Water -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia | Water in agriculture -- Southeast Asia | Water -- Pollution -- Southeast AsiaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 304.20959 LOC classification: QH541.15.E19 | W67 2007Online resources: Full text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.
Contents:
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.
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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.

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