Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Acts of God, deeds of men -- Enlightenment and the plague -- The silence of Lisbon (1755) -- The reign of cholera (1832) -- Political disasters, time in ruins -- Losing Rome (Rousseau) -- Nightwatch: terror and time -- The politics of mortality -- Tall ships and falling stars-- The face of chaos (Medusa) -- The sphinx of the ice fields -- The culture of disaster -- Now playing everywhere.
