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Volume 54 - December 2023

Contents

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Book Review

Research Article

  • 1881, a singularly uneventful year: Everyday death, destruction, and disaster in the Spanish Philippines

  • Greg Bankoff
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 April 2024, pp. 783-803

  • While 1880 is remembered in the Philippines for a great earthquake that struck Manila and 1882 for a highly destructive typhoon that caused untold damage, the everyday disasters that happen all too often across the archipelago are soon forgotten. The interest is in the ‘big’ event, and historiography rarely focuses on less spectacular occurrences. 1881 was one such year when ‘nothing really much’ happened. And yet, a closer examination of the archival record reveals 12 months of earthquake, volcanic eruption, typhoon, storm, flood, and fire that afflicted people across the archipelago. These everyday calamities are historically such an integral part of Filipinos’ lives that they have shaped both their histories and their customs. More than the severity of the event, it is the frequency with which people have had to deal with calamity as an everyday event that has engendered socio-economic adaptation and cultural change. By examining the full range of disasters that people in the Philippines faced in 1881, this article examines the significant impact that geophysical and meteorological forces have had in influencing the daily lives of Filipinos in the past as they continue to do so in the present.

Book Review

Books Received

Book Review

Index to Volume 54

Book Review

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

  • SEA volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 April 2024, pp. f1-f4
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Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

  • SEA volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    19 April 2024, pp. b1-b2
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