Dreadful visitations : confronting natural catastrophe in the age of enlightenment / edited by Alessa Johns.
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TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: xxv, 198 p. : illISBN: - 0415921759 (hc)
- 0415921767 (pbk.)
- 363.3409033 21
- GB5014 .D74 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Alessa Johns -- Pt. I. European Responses to Catastrophe. 1. Confrontations with the Plague in Eighteenth-Century France / Daniel Gordon. 2. Defoe and Disasters / G. A. Starr. 3. Safety and Reconstruction of Noto after the Sicilian Earthquake of 1693 - The Eighteenth-Century Context / Stephen Tobriner -- Pt. II. Colonial Perspectives and New World Calamities. 4. Hunger in the Garden of Plenty: The Bengal Famine of 1770 / David Arnold. 5. Shaking the Unstable Empire: The Lima, Quito, and Arequipa Earthquakes, 1746, 1783, and 1797 / Charles F. Walker. 6. "The Hungry Year": 1789 on the Northern Border of Revolutionary America / Alan Taylor -- Afterword / Carla Hesse.
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