Description 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.” Creator Johns, Alessa, ed. Publisher New York: […]
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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
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Description This website provides interactive, visual tools that depict the vast networks of people and information during the Enlightenment. Using archived letters, travel logs, and other resources, it depicts visually the routes traveled by letters, […]
The Republic of Letters
Description A ground-breaking consideration of the social history of gender in the Enlightenment. As well as an invaluable source on the social history of the Enlightenment overll, this study gave rise to a meaningful and […]
Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
Description Allewaert uncovers the enmeshment of persons in places– and the imbrication of the nonhuman and the human– in eighteenth-century American plantations (and the literature, culture, and thought circulating around and through them). Her book […]
L’invention de la catastrophe au xviiie siècle: du châtiment au désastre naturel
Description In the spirit of Starobinski’s L’invention de la liberté, 1700-1789, essays in this edited volume consider the invention of “catastrophe” in the eighteenth century, i.e. the idea of catastrophe as a natural event and […]
“De la percepción popular a la reflexión erudite: La transmisión de la ‘cultura de la catástrofe’ en la España del siglo XVIII”
Description In this article, Alberola argues that while the first formal reflections on the physical nature of disasters appeared in the philosophical and scientific works of the Classical era, it was in the eighteenth century […]
Critique of the Faculty of Judgment [Urteilskraft]
Description Received most often as Kant’s aesthetic treatise, but also understood as his mature political treatise (cf., Hannah Arendt’s “ectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy). Unlike most aesthetic treatises before and since, this one privileges natural […]