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Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780415921763
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 363.3409033
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 198
Weight: 338g
Height: 231mm
Width: 157mm
Spine width: 13mm