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  • Disasters and History

    The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies

    by Bas van Bavel, Daniel R. Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Matthew Hannaford, Maïka de Keyzer, Eline van Onacker, Tim Soens ...
    Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements

    by Daniel R. Curtis ...
    Series series Rural Worlds
    Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries

    Inequality and Community

    by Daniel R. Curtis ...
    Series series Disaster Studies
    In this book, evidence from a long-run history of epidemic-society interaction in the Low Countries shows that most recurring outbreaks were accommodated by communities, and most reactions, responses, and changes seen were the product of frequent and incremental adaptations, sometimes in periods outside of epidemics.Epidemics blur the distinction between the normal and the sub-normal. Accordingly, ... Read more

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  • Infectious Inequalities

    Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema

    by Qijun Han, Daniel R. Curtis ...
    This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history.Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epidemic ... Read more

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  • Early Modern Capitalism

    Economic and Social Change in Europe 1400-1800

    Edited by Maarten Prak ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Black Death

    by Robert S. Gottfried ...
    A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How the World Became Rich

    The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

    by Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin ...
    Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich?Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • Plague

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Paul Slack ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and India between the 1890s and 1920s. In the 21st century Coronavirus pandemics have served as a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Baby on the Fire Escape

    Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

    by Julie Phillips ...
    An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art—for anyone who is a mother, wants to be, or has ever had one.What does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Environmental Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elizabeth Fisher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    by David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Before We Were Trans

    A New History of Gender

    by Dr. Kit Heyam, Ph.D ...
    A “vital” (New York Times Book Review), groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformityToday’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of ... Read more

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