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Catastrophe, gender and urban experience, 1648-1920 / edited by Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 27.
- Routledge research in gender and history ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Europe--History.
- City and town life.
- Environmental conditions.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- History.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Disasters--Social aspects.
- Disasters.
- Community life.
- Europe.
- Community life--Europe--History.
- Disasters--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Sex role--Europe--History.
- Sex role.
- Sociology, Urban--Europe--History.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Europe--History.
- Europe--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Europe--Environmental conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Employing a broad definition of catastrophe, this book examines how urban communities conceived, adapted to, and were transformed by catastrophes. Competing views of gender figure in the telling and retelling of these tragedies, which are mediated by myth and memory. This is a nuanced account that physically and metaphorically maps men and women into the urban landscape and the worlds of catastrophe"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Catastrophe, gender and urban experience / Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi
- Part 1. Catastrophe in the age of enlightenment and absolutism
- Surviving the siege : catastrophe, gender and memory in La Rochelle / Deborah Simonton
- Between despair and hope : the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon / Helena Murteira
- Drowned in Westminster : a social catastrophe in a West London suburb, 1550-1650 / Imtiaz Habib and Michan Myer
- The plague and the urban police in Montpellier at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Nicolas Vidoni
- Catastrophe, the civilizing process and the urban built environment in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / Emma Hart
- Part 2. Catastrophe in the age of democracy
- Catastrophe, emotions and guilt : the Great Fire of Turku, 1827 / Hannu Salmi
- Personal catastrophe, communal misfortune : bankruptcy in an eighteenth-century merchant family / Jarkko Keskinen
- City upside down : laughing at the flooding of the Danube in late nineteenth-century Vienna / Heidi Hakkarainen
- The Baltic storm surge in November 1872 : urban processes, gendered
- Vulnerability and scientific transformations / Rasmus Dahlberg, Kristoffer Albris and Martin Jebens
- Managing the catastrophe : cholera, urban community and health politics in imperial Moscow / Anna Mazanik
- One disaster after another : the debate about the University of Ghent as unfinished business of the First World War, 1918-1923 / David J. Hensley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Catastrophe, gender and urban experience, 1648-1920
- ISBN:
- 9781138696976
- 1138696978
- OCLC:
- 964242753
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