Description Demonstrates the effects of climate change from Central America to Europe during the 10th-15th centuries, as well as the later effects which this climate change had on multiple civilizations when these same places were […]
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The Age of Global Warming
Description Overall survey, focuses more on the West (including Latin America, which not all “Western surveys” do) and the theorteical reasons underlying contemporary attitudes toward climate change; but takes into account, throughout the book, earlier […]
The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives
Description Excellent survey of late-Maya civilization, focusing on the Post-Classic period from the 10th-16th centuries and into Spanish contact, running through the “long colonial period” up to the end of the 18th century. Relevant for […]
Historia de los cambios climaticos
Description Excellent overall view, rooted in anthropology and ethnology, regarding how climate change affects cultures and social morals throughout the world. While an wide chronological perspective is the norm, there are excellent individual pieces dealing […]
Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment
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: […]
A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination
Description Miller links the French Revolution and the violence of the Terror to eighteenth-century understandings of the natural world (for example, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains) by examining the rhetoric and writings of the revolutionaries themselves. […]
This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
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 […]
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