Disasters and History

Bas van Bavel is Distinguished Professor of Transitions of Economy and Society at Utrecht University. Daniel R. Curtis is Associate Professor in the School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Jessica Dijkman is Assistant Professor in Economic and Social History at Utrecht University. Matthew Hannaford is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Lincoln. Maïka de Keyzer is a Lecturer in Socio-Economic and Environmental Pre-Modern History at KU Leuven. Eline van Onacker is a policy analyst at the Department of Work and Social Economy of the Flemish Government. Tim Soens is Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Antwerp.

• 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.

'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