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Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648-1920: Routledge Research in Gender and History

Editat de Deborah Simonton, Hannu Salmi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2019
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns to the core, challenging the new world view with dramatic impact. This book concentrates on a period marked by passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional village life to new bourgeois and even individualistic urbanism. The volume employs a broad definition of catastrophe, as it examines how urban communities conceived, adapted to, and were transformed by catastrophes, both natural and human-made. Competing views of gender figure in the telling and retelling of these analyses: women as scapegoats, as vulnerable, as victims, even as cannibals or conversely as defenders, organizers of assistance, inspirers of men; and men in varied guises as protectors, governors and police, heroes, leaders, negotiators and honorable men. Gender is also deployed linguistically to feminize activities or even countries. Inevitably, however, these tragedies are mediated by myth and memory. They are not neutral events whose retelling is a simple narrative. Through a varied array of urban catastrophes, this book is a nuanced account that physically and metaphorically maps men and women into the urban landscape and the worlds of catastrophe.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367208882
ISBN-10: 0367208881
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 26
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Gender and History

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience
[Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi]
Part 1: Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment and Absolutism
2. Surviving the Siege: Catastrophe, Gender and Memory in La Rochelle
[Deborah Simonton]
3. Between Despair And Hope: The 1755 Earthquake In Lisbon
[Helena Murteira]
4. Drowned in Westminster: A Social Catastrophe in a West London Suburb, 1550-1650
[Imtiaz Habib and Michan Myer]
5. The Plague and the Urban Police in Montpellier at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century
[Nicolas Vidoni]
6. Catastrophe, the Civilizing Process and the Urban Built Environment in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World
[Emma Hart]
Part 2: Catastrophe in the Age of Democracy
7. Catastrophe, Emotions and Guilt : The Great Fire of Turku, 1827
[Hannu Salmi]
8. Personal Catastrophe, Communal Misfortune: Bankruptcy in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Family
[Jarkko Keskinen]
9. City Upside Down: Laughing at the Flooding of the Danube in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna
[Heidi Hakkarainen]
10. The Baltic Storm Surge in November 1872: Urban Processes, Gendered Vulnerability and Scientific Transformations
[Rasmus Dahlberg, Kristoffer Albris and Martin Jebens]
11. Managing the Catastrophe: Cholera, Urban Community and Health Politics in Imperial Moscow
[Anna Mazanik]
12. One Disaster After Another: The Debate about the University of Ghent as Unfinished Business of the First World War, 1918-1923
[David J. Hensley]
Guide to Further Reading

Descriere

Employing a broad definition of catastrophe, this book examines how urban communities conceived, adapted to, and were transformed by catastrophes. Competing views of gender figure in the telling and retelling of these tragedies, which are mediated by myth and memory. This is a nuanced account that physically and metaphorically maps men and women into the urban landscape and the worlds of catastrophe.