Adam Sundberg (Omaha Creighton University)

Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781108926591
• ISBN-10: 1108926592
• Artikelnr.: 70525882

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.