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Living with Risk in the Late Roman World.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grey, Cam.
- Series:
- Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk--Social aspects--Rome.
- Risk.
- Environmental sociology--Rome.
- Environmental sociology.
- Natural disasters--Social aspects--Rome.
- Natural disasters.
- Rome--Social life and customs.
- Rome.
- Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, this book demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks--both hazardous and favorable--that they perceived"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Cultures of risk
- Seismicity and society
- Weathering the weather
- Living with water
- Writing riskscapes.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512827408
- 1512827401
- OCLC:
- 1468526878
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