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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Editions Chandeigne
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Lisbon (Portugal)
ISBN : 9727921418
Author : Luiz Mendes-Victor,Carlos Sousa Oliveira,João Azevedo,A. Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UOM:39015069310707
Author : Edward Paice
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131753720
Just after half past nine on the morning of Sunday 1 November 1755, the end of the world came to the city of Lisbon. On a day that had begun with blue skies and gentle warmth, Portugal's proud capital was struck by a massive earthquake. After a brief, two-minute tremor came six minutes of horror as Lisbon swayed 'like corn in the wind before the avalanches of descending masonry hid the ruins under a cloud of dust'. A third tremor shook most of the buildings still standing to the ground, causing catastrophic loss of life. Lisbon had been struck by a seismic disturbance estimated at 8.7 on the Richter scale - more powerful than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. An hour later, riverine Lisbon and the Algarve coast were engulfed by a series of tsunamis. In areas of the city unaffected by the waves, fires raged for six days, completing the destruction of Europe's fourth-largest city. By the time it was all over, 60,000 souls had perished and 85% of Lisbon's buildings, plus an unimaginable wealth of cultural treasures, had been destroyed by quake, fire or water. The earthquake had a searing impact on the European psyche. Theologians and philosophers were baffled by this awesome manifestation of the anger of God. How could the presence of such suffering in the world be reconciled with the existence of a beneficent deity? For Portugal itself, despite an ambitious programme of reconstruction (which gave birth to the modern science of seismology), the quake ushered in a period of decline, in which her seaborne supremacy was eclipsed by the inexorable rise of the British empire.Drawing on primary sources, Edward Paice paints a vivid picture of a city and society changed for ever by a day of terror. He describes in thrilling detail the quake itself and its immediate aftermath, but he is interested just as much in its political, economic and cultural consequences. Wrath of God is a gripping account from a master writer of a natural disaster that had a transformative impact on European society.
Author : Mark Molesky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Nicholas Shrady
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440637438
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : British
ISBN : 9729394032
Author : Thomas Downing Kendrick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UCAL:B3955195
Author : João Duarte Fonseca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 9728479328
Author : Judite Nozes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UVA:X001793950
Author : Theodore E. D. Braun,John B. Radner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061471663
The most momentous natural disasters are not necessarily those with the most victims, but rather those producing the greatest shockwaves in intellectual history. The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 forced thinkers to re-engage with many of the greatest metaphysical and scientific questions of the day. Humanity, claiming control of its condition through its search for knowledge, was confounded by its sudden and brutal reduction to the role of passive victim by an unpredictable and incomprehensible Nature. Reason and faith had been reconciled in their understanding and celebration of a divine law reflected and echoed by the laws of science, but the Lisbon earthquake shattered the euphoria of this reconciliation. The debate was metaphysical and scientific, but it was also aesthetic, as the earthquake reopened interest in the sublime: everything that threatened man's personal security, and that enthralled the imagination. Voltaire's intervention made the earthquake one of the great dramas of the century. It even became a metaphor of the French Revolution, shifting the emotion from the trauma of a natural phenomenon to that of a political event. Casanova dreamed of a disaster that might raze the Doge's palace, while Mercier was ambivalent in his Tableau de Paris, imagining a catastrophe capable of laying waste to Paris. Behind the obligatory pathos lay a veiled desire for regeneration through destruction. This is the first major work in half a century to assess the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, both as it was represented at the time, and the reactions it provoked in large areas of western and central Europe, including Portugal, Spain, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Topics considered include its coverage in the popular press, its social and political aftermath, the theological and scientific debates it engendered, as well as twenty-first century assessments of its causes and effects. Literary responses - both serious and parodic - are discussed, through the centuries up to our own time.
Author : Mark Molesky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Charles B. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 0966757815
Author : Victor S. Moreira,David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Academia Publishers
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Lisbon Earthquake, Portugal, 1755
ISBN : 8020013229
Author : Robert Yeats
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107085244
This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.