The culture of disaster /
From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages caused by a violent uni...
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Chicago :
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2012, ©2012
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012] |
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