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“De la percepción popular a la reflexión erudite: La transmisión de la ‘cultura de la catástrofe’ en la España del siglo XVIII”
In this article, Alberola argues that while the first formal reflections on the physical nature of disasters appeared in the philosophical and scientific works of the Classical era, it was in the eighteenth century that these environmental ideas took…
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
Sade/Surreal. Der Marquis de Sade und die erotische Fantasie des Surrealismus in Text und Bild
Explores Sade's impact on the political surrealist art movement in Europe, especially before the 1930s. Sade was hailed for what the surrealists perceived to be his atheistic, materialist, nihilistic and individualistic anarchism that appealed to…
Mapping the Republic of Letters
This website provides interactive, visual tools that depict the vast networks of people and information during the Enlightenment. Using archived letters, travel logs, and other resources, it depicts visually the routes traveled by letters, people,…
Historia de los cambios climaticos
Excellent overall view, rooted in anthropology and ethnology, regarding how climate change affects cultures and social morals throughout the world. While an wide chronological perspective is the norm, there are excellent individual pieces dealing…
The Age of Global Warming
Overall survey, focuses more on the West (including Latin America, which not all "Western surveys" do) and the theorteical reasons underlying contemporary attitudes toward climate change; but takes into account, throughout the book, earlier attitudes…
Sade: Queer Theorist
Examines Sade's multifaceted depiction of sexual desire, gender and biological sex and links this representation to queer theories which help better understand Sade's denial of binary representations of sexuality. The polyphonic definitions of…
Tags: disciplines, In-between, pornography, queer, queer studies, sexuality, upheavals, violence
The Great Warming: The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Demonstrates the effects of climate change from Central America to Europe during the 10th-15th centuries, as well as the later effects which this climate change had on multiple civilizations when these same places were colonized in the later 17th and…
Intersections. A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowksi
Argues that Sade undermines hierarchical distinctions which, according to Gallop, are the foundations of Western philosophy. In his works, Sade deconstructs sexual hierarchies and conventions, gender binarism, as well as the distinction between…
Tags: feminism, In-between, narratology, philosophy, pornography, sexuality, 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…
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
Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited collection of six articles that explore eighteenth-century catastrophes around the globe. Studies consider questions of risk, vulnerability, resilience, colonialism, and the human role in creating "disasters."
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
England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and British Pun
The best overview of punk's emergence, with a focs on UK bit also taking in the US. Savage locates the impulses and aesthetics that informed punk in their historical context to explain why the culture(s) that developed still appear so resonant
Tags: 20th century, punk, United Kingdom, upheavals
The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives
Excellent survey of late-Maya civilization, focusing on the Post-Classic period from the 10th-16th centuries and into Spanish contact, running through the "long colonial period" up to the end of the 18th century. Relevant for the newer emphasis that…
The Enlightenment legacy is under siege. Defend it.
Linker defines Enlightenment legacies as "individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity, the valorization of expertise" and defends them against…
Tags: economics, enlightenment, globalization, modernity, politics, upheavals
L’invention de la catastrophe au xviiie siècle: du châtiment au désastre naturel
In the spirit of Starobinski's L'invention de la liberté, 1700-1789, essays in this edited volume consider the invention of "catastrophe" in the eighteenth century, i.e. the idea of catastrophe as a natural event and an aesthetic object was born in…
Tags: 18th century, catastrophe, disciplines, enlightenment, Europe, risk, upheavals
A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination
Miller links the French Revolution and the violence of the Terror to eighteenth-century understandings of the natural world (for example, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains) by examining the rhetoric and writings of the revolutionaries themselves.…
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
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