Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics: 15 (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) - Tapa dura

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9780415885096: Historical Disasters in Context: Science, Religion, and Politics: 15 (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)
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ISBN 10: 0415885094 ISBN 13: 9780415885096
Editorial: Routledge, 2012

Sinopsis

Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was the political role of disasters?

Historical Disasters in Context illustrates how past societies coped with a threatening environment, how societies changed in response to disaster experiences, and how disaster experiences were processed and communicated, both locally and globally. Particular emphasis is put on the realms of science, religion, and politics. International case studies demonstrate that while there are huge differences across cultures in the way people and societies responded to disasters, there are also many commonalities and interactions between different cultures that have the potential to alter the ways people prepare for and react to disasters in future. To explain these relationships and highlight their significance is the purpose of this volume.

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Andrea Janku teaches Chinese History at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests include famine in Chinese history, environmental history, and processes of communication and globalization in the early modern world. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled ‘Integrating the Body Politic: Famine, the Press, and the Chinese Nation.’

Gerrit J. Schenk is Professor for the History of the Middle Ages at Darmstadt University, Germany, and Research Group Leader "Cultures of Disaster" at the Karl Jaspers Centre, University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is the co-founder of a scholarly network on historical disaster research.

Franz Mauelshagen is a Research Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany. His publications include authored books, edited volumes and many articles on climate history, environmental history, in particular the history of natural disasters, and media on the early modern period.

 

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415885094
ISBN 13 
9780415885096
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
312
Editor
JANKU Andrea, Schenk Gerrit, Mauelshagen Franz
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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