Dreadful visitations : confronting natural catastrophe in the age of enlightenment / edited by Alessa Johns.
Contributor(s): Johns, Alessa
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TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1999Description: xxv, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415921767 (pbk.); 0415921759Subject(s): Natural disasters -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 363.34/09/033 LOC classification: GB5014 | .D74 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Confrontations with the plague in eighteenth-century France / Daniel Gordon -- Defoe and disasters / G.A. Starr -- Safety and reconstruction of Noto after the Sicilian earthquake of 1693--the eighteenth-century context / Stephen Tobriner -- Hunger in the garden of plenty : the Bengal famine of 1770 / David Arnold -- Shaking the unstable empire : the Lima, Quito, and Arequipa earthquakes, 1746, 1783, and 1797 / Charles F. Walker -- "The hungry year" : 1789 on the northern border of revolutionary America / Alan Taylor.