An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 by Kingsbury, Benjamin
An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 by Kingsbury, Benjamin

An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876

The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides...
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An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 by Kingsbury, Benjamin

An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876

$123.51
An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 by Kingsbury, Benjamin

An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876

$123.51
Author: Benjamin Kingsbury
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were full of monsoon rain. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were overtaken by an immense wave from the Bay of Bengal -- a wall of water that reached a height of 40 feet in some places. The wave swept away everything in its path, drowning around 215,000 people. At least another 100,000 died in the cholera epidemic and famine that followed. It was the worst calamity of its kind in recorded history. Such events are often described as "natural disasters." Kingsbury turns that interpretation on its head, showing that the cyclone of 1876 was not simply a "natural" event, but one shaped by all-too-human patterns of exploitation and inequality -- by divisions within Bengali society, and the enormous disparities of political and economic power that characterized British rule on the subcontinent. With Bangladesh facing rising sea
levels and stronger, more frequent storms, there is every reason to revisit this terrible calamity. An Imperial Disaster is troubling but essential reading: history for an age of climate change.


Author: Benjamin Kingsbury
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/15/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780190876098

About the Author

Benjamin Kingsbury was born in Auckland in 1987, and brought up in New Zealand and Pakistan. Since then he has lived in both India and Bangladesh. He has taught history at Victoria University of Wellington, and now works as a historian for the New Zealand government. This is his first book.



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