Author: Johns, Alessa; editor:
Title: Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment
Description: New York / London, Routledge, (1999). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xv, 198 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, a light removed-label mark to rear cover, VG. ¶ Contains 6 papers. Includes: D. Gordon "Confrontations with the Plague in 18th-Century France"; S. Tobriner "Safety & Reconstruction of Noto After the Sicilian Earthquake of 1693: The 18th-Century Context"; D. Arnold " Hunger in the Garden of Plenty: The Bengal Famine of 1770"; C.F. Walker " Shaking the Unstable Empire: Tghe Lima, Quito, & Arequipa Earthquakes, 1746, 1783 and 1797"; A. Taylor "'The Hungry Year': 1789 on the Northern Border of Revolutionary America".

Keywords: Natural Disasters, Catastrophe, Calamity Calamities, Famine Earthquake, Earthquakes Plague, Enlightenment, Eighteenth Century, Social History, Historiography