Adam Sundberg

Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

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Produktbeschreibung

An environmental history of natural disasters during the eighteenth-century decline of the Dutch Republic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831246
• ISBN-10: 1108831249
• Artikelnr.: 62481357

Autorenporträt

Adam Sundberg is an associate professor of History at Creighton University. His work has appeared in Environmental History, Dutch Crossing, and The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Rampjaar reconsidered; 2. 'Disasters in the year of peace': The first cattle plague, 1713
1720; 3. 'The fattened land turned to salted ground': The Christmas flood of 1717 in Groningen; 4. A plague from the sea: The shipworm epidemic, 1730-1735; 5.'Increasingly numerous and higher floods': The river floods of 1740
41; 6. 'From a love of humanity and comfort for the fatherland': The second cattle plague, 1744
1764; 7. The twin faces of calamity: Lessons of decline and disaster.