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Human history is periodically punctuated by natural disasters, from
Vesuvius' eruption to the modern-day COVID-19 pandemic. Volcanoes
have buried entire cities, earthquakes have reduced structures to
smoldering ruins. Floods and cyclones have wreaked havoc on river
valleys and coastlines, and desertification and climate change have
weakened society's underpinnings. Death tolls are often escalated
by starvation and illness, which frequently occur in tandem. This
second edition assesses natural disasters on human society and the
effect of strategies developed to reduce their impact. This book
addresses the interconnectivity of disaster and human
responsibility through 23 updated case studies, including a new
chapter on the 2011 Tohoku tsunami and the ensuing Fukushima
nuclear disaster.
During the last 1500 years, Rome was the inspiration of artists,
the coronation stage of German emperors, the distant desire of
pilgrims, and the seat of the Roman popes. Yet Rome also lies
within the northern range of P. falciparum malaria, the deadliest
strain of the disease, against which northern Europeans had no
intrinsic or acquired defenses. As a result, Rome lured a countless
number of unacclimated transalpine Europeans to their deaths in the
period from 500 to 1850 AD. This book examines how Rome's allure to
European visitors and its resident malaria species impacted the
historical development of Europe. It covers the environmental and
biological factors at play and focuses on two of the periods when
malaria potentially had the greatest impact on the continent: the
heyday of the medieval German Empire and its conflicts with the
papacy (c. 800-1300) and the Protestant Reformation (c.1500).
Through explorations into the history of religion, empire, disease,
and culture, this book tells the story of how the veritable capital
of the world became the graveyard of nations.
Is there an Asia-Pacific model of democracy? Over the past two
decades, more than a dozen Asian and Pacific states have made the
transition to democratic rule. But many of these states are also
ethnically, linguistically, and regionally diverse, creating real
challenges for effective government.
This book explains how the Asia-Pacific's political reformers
responded to the twin challenges of democracy and diversity through
ambitious and often innovative political engineering. Far-reaching
reforms to electoral, parliamentary, and party systems have seen
the emergence of a distinctive regional model of democracy.
Benjamin Reilly analyses this new approach to the design of
political institutions, and its consequences for democratic
governance in the Asia-Pacific and other world regions.
Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and
students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes
concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process
that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The
geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the
Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in
Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official
Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula,
Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the
large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in
agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to
understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence
of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins,
which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for
people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers.
In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities
to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book
synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and
ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian
Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the
limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to
complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that
is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes
significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery
and to the environmental history of the Middle East-an area that
has thus far received little attention from scholars.
In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula,
Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the
large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in
agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to
understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence
of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins,
which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for
people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers.
In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities
to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book
synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and
ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian
Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the
limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to
complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that
is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes
significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery
and to the environmental history of the Middle East-an area that
has thus far received little attention from scholars.
Reilly analyzes the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies which utilize "vote-pooling" electoral systems--including Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Fiji. He shows that political institutions which encourage the development of broad-based, aggregative political parties and where campaigning politicians have incentives to attract votes from a range of ethnic groups can, under certain conditions, encourage a moderate, accommodatory political competition and thus influence the trajectory of democratization in transitional states. This is a challenge to orthodox approaches to democracy and conflict management.
Reilly analyzes the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies which utilize "vote-pooling" electoral systems--including Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Fiji. He shows that political institutions which encourage the development of broad-based, aggregative political parties and where campaigning politicians have incentives to attract votes from a range of ethnic groups can, under certain conditions, encourage a moderate, accommodatory political competition and thus influence the trajectory of democratization in transitional states. This is a challenge to orthodox approaches to democracy and conflict management.
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