Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

by Catherine E. Rigby and Kate Rigby

Book Overview

The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813936888
• ISBN13: 9780813936888
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher