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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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 […]
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 […]
The Great Cat Massacre
Description Translated into 18 languages to date, this work is delightful read and also gets one thinking about the many ways in which we impose our own cultural assumptions, inaccurately, on previous eras; very useful […]
“The Evolution of Climate Ideas and Knowledge”
Description Begins by examining the “new science of the seveneteenth century” in enlightenment Europe. Heymann shows that the new science of observation, especially scientific weather observation, led to the evolution of climate ideas and knowledge […]