Dreadful Visitations; Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Dreadful Visitations; Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Editorial Reviews
Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear and City of Quartz
"How 'enlightened' was the Enlightenment? Natural cataclysm was the dark mirror into which eighteenth-century Europeans preferred not to gaze. When they did--as these brilliant case studies show--the gods of optimism did not smile back at them." --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Paula Findlen, author of Possessing Nature, Stanford University
"Dreadful Visitations offers a series of outstanding case studies that explore the bonds between European societies and colonial territories, and the endurance of faith in an age of reason and profit. This is a marvelous example of the virtues of comparative history." --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

Dreadful Visitations; Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Dreadful Visitations,Alessa Johns,Routledge,0415921767,18th century,History,History - General History,History: World,Modern - 18th Century,Modern - 19th Century,Natural Disasters,Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena,History / General,Sociology, Social Studies,World history: c 1750 to c 1900

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