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Agnostic
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Bengal Famine
catastrophe response analysis
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colonial environmental history
Damp Front
Defoe's Characters
Defoe's Writings
Defoe’s Characters
Defoe’s Writings
Dreadful Visitation
Due Preparations
Earthquake Mitigation
eighteenth-century epidemics
Enlightenment disaster studies
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Flax Seed
Galley Slaves
Garlic Field
Hessian Fly
historical risk perception
Inverse Pendulums
Lisbon Earthquake
Lord Dorchester
moral identity formation
natural disaster cultural impact
Plague Literature
Plague Year
Reale Accademia Delle Scienze
Secretary Of State
Seismic Safety
Southeastern Sicily
Southern Peruvian Andes
trans-Atlantic Market
Western Orientalist Scholarship
Wild Leek
Product details
- ISBN 9780415921756
- Weight: 580g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Throughout history, varying responses to catastrophe have revealed much about a society's cultural and philosophical character. In Dreadful Visitations , leading scholars of different disciplines examine eighteenth-century responses to natural disaster, showing how human agency played an active role in the creation of destructive circumstances, and how these disasters helped to establish national and moral identities in the Age of Reason. Contributors: David Arnold, Daniel Gordon, Carla Hesse, George Starr, Alan Taylor, Steven Tobriner and Charles Walker.
Alessa Johns is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She has published articles on eighteenth-century British literature including the works of Mary Astell, Sarah Fielding, Sarah Scott, Mary Hamilton and Daniel Defoe.
