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Candide
Tags: 18th century, disaster, enlightenment, philosophy, upheavals
Nature in the History of Economic Thought: How Natural Resources Became an Economic Concept
Outlines how natural resources came to be considered as economic resources in European intellectual history, with an emphasis on developments in the long eighteenth century.
History and Nature in the Enlightenment: Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature
Outlines how eighteenth-century historians emphasized the use of nature as a precondition for cultural progress. Discusses such things as climatic theories, and stadial theories.
The Enlightenment: A Genealogy
Edelstein argues for a narrative approach to the Englightenment, claiming that this was a story participants told themselves and each other. He traces shifts in disciplines of knowledge via changes in classical and modern authority, and the role of…
Tags: disciplines, libertinage, love
Mémorial Cap 110
Commemorates the victims of the 1830 shipwreck of a slave ship along the coast of Martinique, as well as other victims of the slave trade. Fifteen human figures stand in a triangular formation facing the sea, orientated at the exact latitude of the…
Tags: art, colonialism, race, upheavals
From Beast-Machine to Man-Machine: Animal Soul in French Letters from Descartes to La Mettrie
An indispensible account of the transition from the Cartesian view of animals as mere biological machines to La Mettrie’s view that human beings are also just such machines. Rosenfield’s work is especially important for its consideration of a wide…
The History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance
Lange’s lengthy history contains a useful overview of materialist authors from Lucretius to Holbach, along with some (biased) discussion of the Kantian and post-Kantian reaction against materialist thought. Although Lange is sympathetic to many forms…
Amadeus
Shaffer’s play, originally published in 1981, presents a conflict between composers Mozart and Salieri that centers on questions of genius and religious faith. Set in Vienna during the 1780s, the play explores connections between music and…
Tags: disciplines, drama, freemasonry, music, theater
The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France
Norman argues that the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns ended in victory for the Ancients, a significant reassessment. This book helps us to understand disciplines of knowledge, categorized as arts and sciences. Norman covers the seventeenth and…
An Experiment with an Air Pump
Inspired by Joseph Wright's 1768 painting, Stephenson's play juxtaposes scientific exploration in 1799 with scientific exploration in 1999. The play raises questions about scientific ethics with regard to dissection of human bodies and to genetic…
Tags: disciplines, drama, ethics, science, theater
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Investigative journalism at its best, Full Body Burden tells a story of people and community in Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado, where a secret nuclear power plant was a major site of employment in the region throughout the 1960s and 1970s.…
Tags: catastrophe, citizenship, resilience, science, upheavals
Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War
This anthology reveals the still-unfolding legacies of the nuclear age. Focusing on on a range of locations including Marshall Islands, Hanford, US Southwest, Alaska, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Hiroshima, fifteen contributing anthropologists shed light…
Tags: catastrophe, ethnicity, race, science, upheavals
Hiroshima o mochikaetta hitobito: “Kankoku no Hiroshima ha naze umareta no ka (Bringing back Hiroshima: The birth of “Hiroshima in Korea”)
This book is about Korean survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Although little-known, approximately 1 in 10 people victimized by the bombs were Koreans who had come to Japan since the turn-of-the-century. Their history…
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses is a translation of “atomic bomb literature,” created by three Japanese authors Ota Yōko, Hara Tamiki, and Toge Sankichi, all of whom survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. As both a witness and a writer,…
Tags: art, catastrophe, culture, destruction, landscape, science, social reorganization, upheavals
Oral histories of North and South American survivors of the atomic bombs
Consisting of fifty-six oral histories of survivors collected by Mexico-based artist Shinpei Takeda from 2005 to 2010, as well as seventy-three oral histories of U.S. survivors and their supporters collected by US historian Naoko Wake from 2010 to…
Cris sur le Bayou: Naissance d'une Poésie Acadienne en Louisiane
A number of works in this anthology of Cajun French poetry treat the expulsion of Acadian French settlers from Novia Scotia beginning in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement. Many of the poems testify to the role this eighteenth-century displacement…
Tags: collective identity, migration, upheavals
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Explores the representational challenges posed by environmental catastrophes that unfold incrementally, in a less spectacular, less visible way than dramatic events. Nixon presents examples of writers doing the conceptual work of making "slow…
Tags: catastrophe, climate, climate change, literature
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