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Broadsheet: “The Great and Terrible Flood,” January 1651
Potrayal of the devastation caused by a massive flood along stretches of the Danube, Neckar, Main, and Rhein in January 1651.
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Broadsheet: “The Great Waters,” January 1682
An account of the destruction in Nuremberg by major flooding along the Pegnitz River.
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Villes et catastrophes: Réactions face a l'urgence dans l'histoire européenne
Covering a wide geographical range of European countries, the articles in this edited collection investigate urban disasters such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and epidemic diseases.
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Munich and the Isar | Ecopolis München
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?
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“The Monster Swallows You”: Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500–2000
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Christian Pfister examines disaster memory and risk culture. In contrast to the memory of war, the memory of natural disaster is markedly short-lived in a globalized world, yet such memory should be preserved in order to minimize the impact of similar disasters in the future.