Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
Brisbane’s 1974 floods substantially damaged Brisbane, accelerating the government’s plans for a second flood mitigation dam.
In the first half of the eighteenth century, the Portuguese Atlantic coast was affected by windblown sands moving from the ocean to inland areas.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Ihnji Jon is interviewed on her recent book, Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics.
The full book by RCC alumna Katrin Kleemann.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition, “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.