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Catastrophe, gender and urban experience, 1648-1920 / edited by Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi.
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
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xvi, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
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HT131 .C38 2017
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Subject(s)
City and town life
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Europe
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History
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Community life
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Europe
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History
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Disasters
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Social aspects
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Europe
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History
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Sex role
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Europe
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History
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Sociology, Urban
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Europe
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History
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Europe
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History
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Europe
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Social conditions
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Europe
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Environmental conditions
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Editor
Simonton, Deborah, 1948-
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Salmi, Hannu
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Series
Routledge research in gender and history ; 27.
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 27
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Summary note
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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ISBN
9781138696976 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1138696978 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2016030705
OCLC
964242753
Other standard number
40026606352
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