Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited collection of six articles that explore eighteenth-century catastrophes around the globe. Studies consider questions of risk, vulnerability, resilience, colonialism, and the human role in creating “disasters.”

Johns, Alessa, ed.

New York: Routledge, 1999.

Ermus, Cindy

English

Edited Volume