Last Day : Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

English

ISBN: 0143114603

EAN: 9780143114604

Category: History / Europe / Spain & Portugal/Nature / Earthquakes & Volcanoes/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 07/08/2011

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune?it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five days and left Lisbon thoroughly annihilated. Nicholas Shrady?s unique account of this first modern disaster and its aftereffects successfully articulates the outcome of the earthquake?the eighteenth-century equivalent of a mass media frenzy giving rise to a host of other fascinating developments, such as disaster preparedness, landmark social reform, urban planning, and the birth of seismology.

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Last Day : Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.68 inches

Width: 5.38 inches

Length: 8.02 inches

Weight: 7.55 oz

Pages: 256