Roars from the mountain : colonial management of the 1951 volcanic disaster at Mount Lamington / R. Wally Johnson. Roars from the Mountain

Collection type	Library
Author	Johnson, R. W. (Robert Wallace), author.; Australian National University Press;
Call Number	363.3495095 J68r
Document type	Monograph
Year	2020.
Pagination	xxv, 356 pages : Illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Publisher	ANU Press. ANU Press,
Note	"This book is an off-print from the original published electronically. Several of the illustrations have not printed well, but are of superior quality on-line. No index is provided in this hard-copy book but subjects can be searched for using the digital version." -- inside cover. Also available om;ine at ANU EPress. Includes bibliographical references. National edeposit: Available online Mount Lamington broke out in violent eruption on 21 January 1951, killing thousands of Orokaiva people, devastating villages and destroying infrastructure. Generations of Orokavia people had lived on the rich volcanic soils of Mount Lamington, apparentlyunaware of the deadly volcanic threat that lay dormant beneath them. Also unaware were the Europeans who administered the Territory of Papua and New Guinea at the time of the eruption, and who were uncertain about how to interpret the increasing volcanic unrest on the mountain in the preceding days of the disaster. Roars from the Mountain seeks to address why so many people died at Mount Lamington by examining the large amount of published and unpublished records that are available on the 1951 disaster. T he information sources also include the results of interviews with survivors and with people who were part of the relief, recovery and remembrance phases of what can still be regarded as one of Australia's greatest natural-hazard disasters.
Place made	Acton, A.C.T. :

Abstract

Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Prologue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- PART 1. TIDAL WAVE FROM THE WEST -- 1. Claiming Land for the British Empire -- 2. Colonialism on a Shoestring -- 3. World War and Australian Recovery -- PA RT 2. CATASTROPHIC ERUPTION -- 4. Victims, Survivors and Evacuations -- 5. The Next 10 Days: Disaster Relief and Controversy -- 6. Beginning Disaster Recovery -- 7. Volcanological Analysis and New Eruptions -- PART 3. AFTER THE DISASTER -- 8. Resettlement , Myths and Memorialisation -- 9. Lead-Up to Independence. 10. Living with Mount Lamington in Postcolonial Times -- References -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A: Correspondence and Reference Collections -- Appendix B: A Postcolonial Time Series.