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Author : Victor S. Moreira,David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Academia Publishers
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal, 1755
ISBN : 8020013229
Author : Luiz Mendes-Victor,Carlos Sousa Oliveira,João Azevedo,A. Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402086090
The 1755 earthquake and tsunami were influential not only in Portugal but in all European and North African countries where the devastating effects were felt. The entire world was deeply impressed and the discussion of its causes generated a large amount of scientific and metaphysical speculation. It inspired philosophers, poets and writers. The socio-economic consequences of the event were great and affected the future organization and development of Portugal. The possibility of a similar occurence urges society and the scientific community to reflect on its lessons. Audience This work is of interest to experts in seismology, earthquake engineering, civil protection, urban planning and it is a reference book for doctoral students.
Author : João Duarte Fonseca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UOM:39015069310707
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : British
ISBN : 9729394032
Author : Mark Molesky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307387509
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment.
Author : João Duarte Fonseca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 9728479328
Author : Gloria López
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789535108658
This book, the third in the InTech Tsunami series, has been published in order to deepen efforts towards the understanding of tsunami dynamics that seems to be never enough. As the previous books in this series, "The Tsunami Threat - Research and Technology" (January 2011) and "Tsunami - A Growing Disaster" (December 2011), this multi-disciplinary volume compiles a collection of scientific papers showing the state-of-the-art of tsunami research at different levels. The various contributions cover an array of themes that span from geological evidence to post-trauma human care, encompassing pre-tsunami analyses and modeling to post-tsunami management and preparedness techniques. As its counterparts, "Tsunami - Analysis of a Hazard: from physical interpretation to human impact" continues to present evidence and case studies from different regions of the World: from the isolated Hawaiian Islands and Northern Indian Ocean, to the edges of the Atlantic and Eastern Mediterranean.
Author : Mary Ashburn Miller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801461324
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance. In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France.
Author : Theodore E. D. Braun,John B. Radner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lisbon (Portugal)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Editions Chandeigne
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Lisbon (Portugal)
ISBN : 9727921418
Author : Alexander Regier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521509671
This book explains why 'fracture' and 'fragmentation' are two critical concepts that are particularly suited to understanding what is special about Romanticism. The book also discusses how Romanticism comes to be both an historical as well as a philosophical category, and offers new readings of key Romantic writers.
Author : Stephanie Renee Dos Santos
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000342792
In 1755, the famous Portuguese tile maker Pêro Manuel Pires is empathetic to a fault. He is dedicated to freeing slaves with the proceeds of his art and hiring the freed to work in his tile factory, triggering rage and repercussions from a competitor. Pêro harbors a female artist whose risqué creations keep the shop’s works in demand by Lisbon’s elite. The success of her designs does not sit well with one of Pêro’s longtime workers, bringing him and his loved ones under the menacing eye of the Inquisition, with threat of imprisonment and closure of his shop. Risking his life and liberty, Pêro is determined to push forward. But on All Saints Day, November 1st, Portugal is struck by earthquakes, tidal waves and massive fires, and Pêro loses what is most dear to him. Will he escape? Or stay to fight for freedom and the future? A historical novel set in 18th century Lisbon, Cut From The Earth is a riveting story of courage, determination and survival.
Author : Thomas Downing Kendrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UOM:39015005516409
Author : Jan Kozák,Vladimir Cermák
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789048133253
This book tells the story of the Earth itself, explaining the interplay of its gradual geologi- levolution, presented as a generally slow and safe process, with the sudden manifestations of natural hazards, which involve disasters that affect the environment and lead to huge material damage and human losses. The natural forces at play, whether they are violent explosions ofvolcanic eruptions or almost imperceptible deformations of subsurface rock strata, nally- sulting in devastating earthquakes, all control the existence and destiny of a certain part of the global population. The development of man’s existence down through history has depended upon his understanding of the world in which he lives, and upon his ability to turn to his own best use the materials that were there for the taking. However, he has had not only to furnish himself with food, water, building materials, and energy to protect himself against occasional natural adversities. Protecting himself from them meant comprehending their causes, and the essential core of his understanding was in recording and depicting them. This book is written for anyone interested in the Earth in general, and in natural disasters in particular, presenting a unique collection of historical illustrations of volcanic eruptions and earthquake events and their repercussions. The book represents a golden mean between sci- ti c and popular works.
Author : Greg Bankoff,Uwe Lübken,Jordan Sand
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299283834
In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study of urban conflagration, shows how fire has shaped cities throughout the modern world, from Europe to the imperial colonies, major trade entrepôts, and non-European capitals, right up to such present-day megacities as Lagos and Jakarta. Urban fire may hinder commerce or even spur it; it may break down or reinforce barriers of race, class, and ethnicity; it may serve as a pretext for state violence or provide an opportunity for displays of state benevolence. As this volume demonstrates, the many and varied attempts to master, marginalize, or manipulate fire can turn a natural and human hazard into a highly useful social and political tool.