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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boomgaard, P., 1946-2017 (Author, Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : KITLV Press, 2007.
Series:	Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 240.
Subjects:	Ecohydrology > Southeast Asia > History. Water > Social aspects > Southeast Asia. Water in agriculture > Southeast Asia. Water > Pollution > Southeast Asia. Society and social sciences. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Water Supply. Ecohydrology Water in agriculture Water > Pollution Water > Social aspects Hydrologie Hydrobiologie Wasserverschmutzung Water. Southeast Asia Südostasien Zuidoost-Azië. History
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Table of Contents:

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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