Bibliograph

Historical disasters in context, science, religion, and politics, edited by Andrea Janku, Gerrit Jasper Schenk, and Franz Mauelshagen

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Historical disasters in context, science, religion, and politics, edited by Andrea Janku, Gerrit Jasper Schenk, and Franz Mauelshagen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Historical disasters in context

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

751745089

Responsibility statement

edited by Andrea Janku, Gerrit Jasper Schenk, and Franz Mauelshagen

Series statement

Routledge studies in cultural history, 15

Sub title

science, religion, and politics

Table Of Contents

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 -- 6. Earthquakes in early modern France: from the old regime to the birth of a new risk -- 7. 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 -- 13. Climate catastrophism: the history of the future of climate change

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