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The culture of disaster / Marie-Helene Huet.
LIBRA D24 .H77 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huet, Marie-Hélène.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters.
- World politics.
- Disasters in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Acts of God, deeds of men
- Enlightenment and the plague
- The silence of Lisbon (1755)
- The reign of cholera (1832)
- Political disasters, time in ruins
- Losing Rome (Rousseau)
- Nightwatch: terror and time
- The politics of mortality
- Tall ships and falling stars
- The face of chaos (Medusa)
- The sphinx of the ice fields
- The culture of disaster
- Now playing everywhere.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226358215
- 0226358216
- OCLC:
- 769010848
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