Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia

Gebonden Engels 2013 9781137001122
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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.

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ISBN13:9781137001122
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Introduction 1. The Empire of Disasters 2. Disaster Tourism - The Edens and Fanny Parks 3. Philip Meadows Taylor - The Bureaucrat as Healer 4. The Dead who did not Die - Rudyard Kipling and Cholera 5. Gendering Disaster - Flora Annie Steel Coda Bibliography

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