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Series: Living with the Shore
Published: 01 January 1983
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382942-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8294-2
Book Chapter

By Austin Zeiderman
Series: Global Insecurities
Published: 27 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7418-3
... natural disaster political violence events life security ...
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... Orlando natural disasters representation tourism artist compensation ...
Series: Design Principles for Teaching History
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5929-5
... disease environmental history natural disaster anthropomorphic climate change ...
Series: Design Principles for Teaching History
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059295-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5929-5
... to the Indian Ocean and have had a global reach. Natural disasters like the 1883 explosion of Krakatau and the 2004 tsunami are considered alongside the ways that human actions have changed the Indian Ocean, from the extinction of the dodo bird to anthropomorphic climate change and the threat of warm oceans...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... reputation as a cultural haven. The narrative traces the history of Puerto Rican migration to the area, noting waves of arrivals due to economic instability, violence, and natural disasters. However, despite the growth of the community, the local visual art scene has been historically underdeveloped...
Series: Global Insecurities
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374183-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7418-3
... for governing cities and urban life. natural disaster political violence events life security ...
Published: 14 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375210-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7521-0
... Despite water engineers’ best attempts to explain water trouble as the result of technical difficulties, natural disasters, or shortages, dry taps are overwhelmingly described in private conversations, in popular discourse, and in media narratives as the result of an all-knowing, all-powerful...
Series: Design Principles for Teaching History
Published: 05 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5929-5
... had a global reach. Natural disasters like the 1883 explosion of Krakatau and the 2004 tsunami are considered alongside the ways that human actions have changed the Indian Ocean, from the extinction of the dodo bird to anthropomorphic climate change and the threat of warm oceans and rising sea levels...
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... waves of arrivals due to economic instability, violence, and natural disasters. However, despite the growth of the community, the local visual art scene has been historically underdeveloped and focused on engaging tourists. Puerto Rican artists in Orlando have faced difficulties in gaining recognition...
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2757-7
...Earth The United Nations published a report (2021) on global climate change which has rightly been described as a bombshell or a red code for humanity. The report noted that climate change is already with us, evidenced by the many extreme weather disasters in recent years, and concluded...
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373100-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7310-0
... of immediacy, or immediations, aim to humanize disenfranchised subjects, they ultimately reinforce their status as other. The chapter examines how the formal conventions of participatory documentary are implicated in naturalizing these exclusions. The author aims to realize the radical ethical potential...
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2757-7
... United Nations weather disasters climate change extinction famine permafrost ...
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
Published: 21 July 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7334-6
... for Marx and Engels was not some moral imperative, but flowed from the international nature of capitalism as it developed. James also shows how the strategy and tactics of “permanent revolution” originated with Marx and Engels generalizing out of the experience of workers during 1848. Karl Marx...
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373360-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7336-0
..., gullible working-class migrants from Britain died rapidly, and the colony collapsed in disaster. Stollmeyer remained in Port of Spain and gained a position as manager of an asphalt deposit in South Trinidad. He found a method to distill that heavy hydrocarbon into a light oil that would burn and generate...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1992), 101–38; and Erna Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775–1939 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1989), 333–452. For the nineteenth-century place of “naturals” like Ellen, see James W. Trent Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1992), 101–38; and Erna Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775–1939 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1989), 333–452. For the nineteenth-century place of “naturals” like Ellen, see James W. Trent Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-033
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1992), 101–38; and Erna Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775–1939 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1989), 333–452. For the nineteenth-century place of “naturals” like Ellen, see James W. Trent Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1992), 101–38; and Erna Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775–1939 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1989), 333–452. For the nineteenth-century place of “naturals” like Ellen, see James W. Trent Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1992), 101–38; and Erna Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army: A History of the Corps, 1775–1939 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1989), 333–452. For the nineteenth-century place of “naturals” like Ellen, see James W. Trent Jr., Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History...