The Lisbon earthquake of 1755: The first modern disaster

Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century

Volumn 2005, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Dynes, Russell R ^a  

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References (16)

1. See for example, Stephen Tobriner, The Genesis of Noto: an eighteenth-century city (London 1982).
2. T. D. Kendrick, The Lisbon earthquake (London 1956), p.25.
3. I. Woloch, Eighteenth-century Europe: tradition and progress (New York 1982), p.1.
4. C. R. Boxer, The Portuguese seaborne empire: 1415-1825 (Oxford 1963), p.189.
5. My major source on the career of Pombal is K. Maxwell, Pombal: paradox of the Enlightenment (Cambridge 1995)
6. On the reign of José I, H. V. Livermore, A New history of Portugal (Cambridge 1976).
7. Maxwell, Pombal, p.9.
8. J. A. Franca, Lisbon Pombalina e o Ilumimismo (Lisbon 1983).
9. Kendrick, Lisbon earthquake, p.26.
10. Livermore, A New history, p.227-28.
11. Woloch, Eighteenth-century Europe, p.4.
12. Norbert Elias, Power and civility: the civilizing process, vol.ii (New York 1982).
13. Thomas Burnet, The Sacred theory of the earth (1691; reprinted Carbondale, IL 1965).
14. Cited in Boxer, The Portuguese empire, p. 191.
15. R. Stallings, 'Disaster and the theory of social order', in What is disaster? Perspectives on the question, ed. E. L. Quarantelli (London 1998), p.127-45.
16. Stallings, 'Disaster', p.142.