Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Part I. ECONOMIC PARAMETERS OF DISASTERS -- Chapter 01. Linking Broad-Scale Political Economic Contexts to Fine-Scale Economic Consequences in Disaster Research -- Chapter 02. Anthropology and the Political Economy of Disasters -- Part II. CLASS-BASED VULNERABILITY IN DISASTER EXPOSURE, IMPACT, AND RECOVERY -- Chapter 03. "The Dam is Becoming Dangerous and May Possibly Go"1: The Paleodemography and Political Economy of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 -- Chapter 04. The Invisible Toll of Katrina: How Social and Economic Resources are Altering the Recovery Experience among Katrina Evacuees in Colorado -- Chapter 05. Recovering Inequality: Democracy, the Market Economy, and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire -- Part III. THE LINE BETWEEN HAZARD AND DISASTER FOR PRIMARY PRODUCERS -- Chapter 06. Weak Winters: Dynamic Decision-Making in the Face of Extended Drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil -- Chapter 07. The Impact of Volcanic Hazards on the Ancient Olmec and Epi-Olmec Economies in the Los Tuxtlas Region, Veracruz, Mexico -- Chapter 08. If the Pyroclastic Flow Doesn't Kill You, the Recovery Will: Cascading Impacts of Mt. Tungurahua's Eruptions in Rural Ecuador -- Part IV. PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION IN HAZARDOUS SETTINGS -- Chapter 09. When the Lights Go Out: Understanding Natural Hazard and Merchant "Brownout" Behavior in the Provincial Philippines -- Chapter 10. Where Others Fear to Trade: Modeling Adaptive Resilience in Ethnic Trading Networks to Famines, Maritime Warfare, and Imperial Stability in the Growing Indian Ocean Economy, ca. 1500-1700 CE -- Chapter 11. Madagascar's Cyclone Vulnerability and the Global Vanilla Economy -- Part V. POLITICAL ECONOMIC MITIGATION OF DISASTERS -- Chapter 12. Learning from Disaster? Mad Cows, Squatter Fires, and Temporality in Repeated Crises.

Chapter 13. "Hurricanes Did Not Just Start Happening": Expectations of Intervention in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Casino Industry -- Chapter 14. From the Phoenix Effect to Punctuated Entropy: The Culture of Response as a Unifying Paradigm of Disaster Mitigation and Recovery -- Index -- About the Authors.