Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

Author	: U. Mukherjee
File Size	: 44,9 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 24 September 2013
ISBN	: 9781137001139
Pages	: 221 pages

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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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