The Reconstruction Of Lisbon
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Building The Enlightened City
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Author : Grayson Michael Curtis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Building The Enlightened City written by Grayson Michael Curtis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
The Reconstruction Of Lisbon
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Author : Michael Colvin
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2008
The Reconstruction Of Lisbon written by Michael Colvin and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This text exposes how Fado lyricists have appropriated popular novelist and playwright Julio Dantas' forging of Mouraria fadista/prostitute Maria Severa as a national heroine, and the Fado as Portugal's national song to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Mouraria between the 1930s and 1970s.
Lvaro Siza
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Lvaro Siza written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Historic buildings categories.
The Lisbon Earthquake In 1755
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Author : Russell Rowe Dynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Lisbon Earthquake In 1755 written by Russell Rowe Dynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Disaster relief categories.
How The Morphological Changes Of A City Relate To Its Preceding Layers Of History
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Author : Tamsin Evers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
How The Morphological Changes Of A City Relate To Its Preceding Layers Of History written by Tamsin Evers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Lisbon Before The 1755 Earthquake
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Editions Chandeigne
Release Date : 2004
Lisbon Before The 1755 Earthquake written by and has been published by Editions Chandeigne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Lisbon (Portugal) categories.
A Study Of The Design And Construction Of Buildings In The Pombaline Quarter Of Lisbon
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Author : Jorge Morarji Dias Mascarenhas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
A Study Of The Design And Construction Of Buildings In The Pombaline Quarter Of Lisbon written by Jorge Morarji Dias Mascarenhas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
This Gulf Of Fire
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Author : Mark Molesky
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-11-03
This Gulf Of Fire written by Mark Molesky and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with History categories.
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African coasts. Directly in their path was Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. But this was only the beginning. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. By day’s end, the great wave chain would claim victims on four separate continents. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains. Subjecting survivors to temperatures exceeding 1,832°F (1,000°C), it burned for several weeks, killing thousands and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort; the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal; and the effect of the disaster on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment. Much more than a chronicle of destruction, This Gulf of Fire is, at its heart, a gripping human drama, involving an array of unforgettable characters—such as the Marquês de Pombal, the once-slighted striver who sees in the chaos his path to supreme power, and Gabriel Malagrida, the charismatic Jesuit whose view that the earthquake was a punishment sent by God leads inexorably to his demise. There is Dom José, the unremarkable king of Portugal, who stands by his people in their moment of greatest need but ultimately abandons them to the tyranny of his first minister. There is Kitty Witham, the plucky English nun who helps her fellow sisters escape from their collapsing convent, and Manoel Portal, the Oratorian priest who flees the burning capital on his broken leg and goes on to write one of the definitive accounts of the disaster. Philosophers, kings, poets, emperors, scientists, scoundrels, journalists, and monkeys all make their appearance in this remarkable narrative of the mid-eighteenth century.
Approaches To Disaster Management
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Author : John Tiefenbacher
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2013-04-17
Approaches To Disaster Management written by John Tiefenbacher and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-17 with Social Science categories.
Approaches to Disaster Management regards critical disaster management issues. Ten original research reports by international scholars centered on disaster management are organized into three general areas of hazards and disaster management. The first section includes discussions of perspectives on vulnerability and on evolving approaches to mitigation. The second section highlights approaches to improve data use and information management in several distinct applications intended to promote prediction and communication of hazard. The third section regards the management of crises and post-event recovery in the private sector, in the design of urban space and among the victims of disaster. This volume contributes both conceptual and practical commentary to the disaster management literature.
The Last Day
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Author : Nicholas Shrady
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-04-10
The Last Day written by Nicholas Shrady and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-10 with History categories.
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five days and left Lisbon thoroughly annihilated. Nicholas Shrady's unique account of this first modern disaster and its aftereffects successfully articulates the outcome of the earthquake-the eighteenth-century equivalent of a mass media frenzy giving rise to a host of other fascinating developments, such as disaster preparedness, landmark social reform, urban planning, and the birth of seismology.