Covering areas in today’s Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters

"Covering areas in today's Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters o

This volume is a unique publication as it examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time, with an emp

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophe