The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500-1826

The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500-1826
Author: Sandhya Patel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN: 9783031121210

This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe. Crucially, they interrogate how people in the early modern era rationalized and mediated the threat of events like plagues, great frosts, storms, floods and earthquakes. A vital contribution to environmental history, this book highlights the parallels between early modern responses to natural disaster and climate anxiety in our own era. Sandhya Patel is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. Sophie Chiari-Lasserre is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France.

The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826

The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826
Author: Sandhya Patel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031121201

This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe. Crucially, they interrogate how people in the early modern era rationalized and mediated the threat of events like plagues, great frosts, storms, floods and earthquakes. A vital contribution to environmental history, this book highlights the parallels between early modern responses to natural disaster and climate anxiety in our own era.

All The Pasha’s Men:Mehmed Ali,Hisarmy And The Making Of Modern Egypt

All The Pasha’s Men:Mehmed Ali,Hisarmy And The Making Of Modern Egypt
Author: Khaled Fahmy
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9789774246968

Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and armies, not as a means of gaining independence, but to further his hereditary rule over Egypt.

All the Pasha's Men

All the Pasha's Men
Author: Khaled Fahmy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997-11-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521560078

While previous scholarship has viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire, but to further his own ambitions for hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I
Author: Nikolina Bobic
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2022-10-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000774112

For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently, architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event and therefore incapable of performing any political role. This handbook explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems – from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change – this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frames cutting-edge contemporary debates and presents studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This Handbook will be of interest to anyone seeking to meaningfully disrupt the reduction of space to an oppressive or neutral backdrop of political realities.