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Bordering on Danger: An Introduction -- Revisiting Southeast Asian History with Geology: Some Demographic Consequences of a Dangerous Environment -- 'The Sea Becomes Mulberry Fields and Mulberry Fields Become the Sea' : Dikes in the Eastern Red River Delta, c.200 BCE to the Twenty-First Century CE -- 'The Most Horrible of Evils': Social Responses to Drought and Famine in the Bombay Presidency, 1782-1857 -- Philippine Typhoons Since the Seventeenth Century -- Bushfire in Madagascar: Natural Hazard, Useful Tool, and Change Agent -- Emperor Tự Dức's 'Bad Weather' Interpreting Natural Disasters in Vietnam, 1847-1883 -- Storm over San Isidro: Repeated 'disasters' and Civic Community Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines -- Disaster Management and Colonialism in the Indonesian Archipelago, 1840-1920 -- Cyclones, Drought, and Slavery: Environment and Enslavement in the Western Indian Ocean, 1870s to 1920s -- Their Inescapable Portion? Cyclones, Disaster Relief, and the Political Economy of Pearlshelling in Northwest Australia, 1865-1935.