Dreadful Visitations
Subtitle: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 21, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415921763
First sentence: In the history of modern Europe, certain periods are evocative of progress, while others symbolize the backward condition from which progress supposedly has been made.