Disaster in the Early Modern World
David Rosenthal, "Disaster in the Early Modern World "
English | ISBN: 0367465973 | 2023 | 338 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 0367465973 | 2023 | 338 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750.
Covering topics that range from new thinking about risk and securitisation to the protection of dikes from shipworm, and with a geography that extends from Europe to Spanish America, the volume places early modern disaster studies squarely at the intersection of intellectual, cultural and socio-economic history. This period witnessed fresh speculation on nature, the diffusion of disaster narratives and imagery and unprecedented attempts to control the physical world.
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