[Book Launch] Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines

The Department of History of the School of Social Sciences and The Ateneo de Manila University Press warmly invite you to the book launch of

Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines

MARCH 12, 2024 | 2:00-4:00PM | CTC 413

Featuring Special Guest Speaker & Author: Professor Emeritus James Francis Warren, Murdoch University, Australia

Register here: https://go.ateneo.net/TyphoonsBookLaunch

*Note that slots are limited, and only pre-registered guests will be permitted entry into the venue.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of James Warren's much anticipated title published under the Ateneo de Manila University Press, Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines. Learn more about the book as the author speaks on the significance of this remarkable work of scholarship. 

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at a discounted launch price of P1,100. Participants will have the opportunity to have their books signed by Professor Warren at the end of the program.

We hope to see you there!

About The Book

Typhoons offers an unprecedented and extensive view of the complex interplay of typhoons and Philippine society. Its sweeping coverage of the Philippine landscape that includes the earliest contact with the West, the development of the trans-Pacific trade, incursions of the Catholic religion, integration into the Modern World system, and the extraordinary influences of centuries of typhoons has made for remarkable scholarship. 

By placing typhoons and associated hazards at the center of his historical focus, James Francis Warren presents a bold and innovative interpretation of Philippine pasts and futures, whereby the distinctions between natural hazards and natural disasters disappear. He gives a unique and long-term perspective on Philippine environmental and economic-social history through the lens of a recurrent extreme weather event extending all the way to the present, laying down the critical challenges that confront us in a globally warmer and more unpredictable future.

A very important reference material for all those interested in multidisciplinary approaches to environmental sciences, social sciences, economic and sociopolitical history, disaster risk management, and sustainable development, Typhoons is an astonishing, panoramic, persuasive study of inestimable value.

About The Author

James Francis Warren is emeritus professor of modern Southeast Asian history at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He is an award-winning historian who has published numerous monographs, journal articles, and book chapters. His books include The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State (eds. 1981, 2007, and 2021); Iranun and Balangingi: Globalisation, Maritime Raiding, and the Birth of Ethnicity (2002); Pirates, Prostitutes, and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno and Social History of Southeast Asia (2008); Rickshaw Coolie: A People’s History of Singapore, 1880–1940 (1986 and 2003); and Ah Ku and Karayuki San: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870–1940 (1993 and 2003). He lives in Perth, with his wife, Carol, an anthropologist, and daughter, Kristin, a wildlife, zoological, and conservation medicine specialist.