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

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

Shrady, Nicholas

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General World HistoryGeologySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0143114603
ISBN13: 9780143114604
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Mar 31 2009
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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