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Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

English

By (author): John Brewer

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism
 
Momentous and spellbinding.Caroline Eden, Financial Times
 
Endlessly fascinating.Pratinav Anil, Times (UK)

 
Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature.
 
John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2023
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300272666

About John Brewer

John Brewer is emeritus professor of humanities and social sciences at the California Institute of Technology and a faculty associate of the Harvard University History Department. His books include Pleasures of the Imagination which won the Wolfson History Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards.

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