Description To date, the most complete, well-researched, and historically sound study on the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake – considered one of the most transformative “natural” disasters in history. Explores the urban, social, and political landscape of […]
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Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783
Description This text surveys the British Caribbean from 1624 through the calamitous hurricane season of 1780. Mulcahy examines the various natural hazards that the region was prone to, including food shortages and disease, but focuses […]
“Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne.”
Creator Voltaire Contributor Ermus, Cindy Language French Type Poem
Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
Creator Walker, Charles F. Publisher Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Contributor Ermus, Cindy Language English Type Book
Mémorial Cap 110
Description Commemorates the victims of the 1830 shipwreck of a slave ship along the coast of Martinique, as well as other victims of the slave trade. Fifteen human figures stand in a triangular formation facing […]
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Description Investigative journalism at its best, Full Body Burden tells a story of people and community in Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado, where a secret nuclear power plant was a major site of employment in […]
Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War
Description This anthology reveals the still-unfolding legacies of the nuclear age. Focusing on on a range of locations including Marshall Islands, Hanford, US Southwest, Alaska, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Hiroshima, fifteen contributing anthropologists shed light on […]
Hiroshima o mochikaetta hitobito: “Kankoku no Hiroshima ha naze umareta no ka (Bringing back Hiroshima: The birth of “Hiroshima in Korea”)
Description This book is about Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although little-known, approximately 1 in 10 people victimized by the bombs were Koreans who had come to Japan […]
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses
Description Hiroshima: Three Witnesses is a translation of “atomic bomb literature,” created by three Japanese authors Ota Yōko, Hara Tamiki, and Toge Sankichi, all of whom survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. […]
Oral histories of North and South American survivors of the atomic bombs
Description Consisting of fifty-six oral histories of survivors collected by Mexico-based artist Shinpei Takeda from 2005 to 2010, as well as seventy-three oral histories of U.S. survivors and their supporters collected by US historian Naoko […]