Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times : : Cultural Responses to Catastrophes / / Hanneke van Asperen, Lotte Jensen, editors.
Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2023. |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Disaster Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 pages) :; illustrations. |
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