ISBN:
9780415885096
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (309 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Parallel Title:
Print version Historical Disasters in Context
DDC:
303.48509
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was the politic
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Historical Disasters in Context : Science, Religion, and Politics; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Roman Emperors and 'Natural Disasters' in the First Century A.D.; 3. Managing Natural Hazards : Environment, Society, and Politics in Tuscany and the Upper Rhine Valley in the Renaissance (ca. 1270-1570); 4. Acts of God : The Confessionalization of Disaster in Reformation Europe; 5. The Struggle Against the Sea : An Early Modern Coastal Society Between Metaphysical and Physical Attempts to Control Nature
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Earthquakes in Early Modern France : From the Old Regime to the Birth of a New Risk7. The Doomsday Discourse in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1700-Present; 8. Forgotten Risks : Mass Movements in the Mountains; 9. Shaping the City : Aleppo's Foreigner Community and the Earthquake of 1822; 10. Earthquake versus Fire : The Struggle over Insurance in the Aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Disaster; 11. Mediating Foreign Disasters : The Los Angeles Times and International Relief, 1891-1914; 12. From Natural to National Disaster : The Chinese Famine of 1928-1930
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Climate Catastrophism : The History of the Future of Climate ChangeContributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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