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Representations of Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Pacific : From Dampier to Cook / / by Sandhya Patel
| Representations of Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Pacific : From Dampier to Cook / / by Sandhya Patel |
| Autore | Patel Sandhya |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.6091823 |
| Soggetto topico |
Imperialism
Intellectual life - History Great Britain - History Europe - History - 1492- Imperialism and Colonialism Intellectual History History of Britain and Ireland History of Early Modern Europe |
| ISBN |
9783031626302
3031626303 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Bloody, mad, swaring, flashy fellows'. William Dampier and the Blueprinting of Violence -- 3. 'Destruction of poor naked savages'. Samuel Wallis in the Pacific -- 4. 'To treat them all with imaginable humanity'. Violence and James Cook's Endeavour Voyage -- 5. Afterword. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910913782903321 |
Patel Sandhya
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826 : Events in Excess / / edited by Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari
| The Writing of Natural Disaster in Europe, 1500–1826 : Events in Excess / / edited by Sandhya Patel, Sophie Chiari |
| Autore | Patel Sandhya |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Disciplina |
809
820.936 |
| Soggetto topico |
Europe - History - 1492-
Human ecology - History Civilization - History History of Early Modern Europe Environmental History Cultural History |
| ISBN |
9783031121203
3031121201 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Elucidating Events in Excess in Early Modern Manuals, Pamphlets and Pastorals -- Chapter 2: Prognosticating Tempests in The Arte of Navigation by Richard Eden -- Chapter 3: Tending One’s Own Garden: Husbandry, Weather Lore and Prognostication in Early Modern England -- Chapter 4: Pests, Plagues and Pastoral Husbandry: Representing Ovine Disease in Early Modern England -- Part II: Directed Discussions of Disaster -- Chapter 5: Acqua Alta, Silting, and Plague: Representing Venetian Resilience from an Early Modern British Perspective -- Chapter 6: The Advent of Natural Disaster. The Earthquake in the Philosophical Transactions (1664/5-1700) -- Chapter 7: ‘Improving this terrible Visitation’: The Three Thomases and the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake -- Part III: Poetics of Disaster -- Chapter 8: The Illusive Elements in Purcell and Dryden’s King Arthur -- Chapter 9: Mary Shelley, Natural Disasters and ‘Catastrophes’ -- Chapter 10: Comparative Collapsology: From Shakespeare to George R. R. Martin. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910634052403321 |
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Patel Sandhya
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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