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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia
By:U. Mukherjee
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137001122
eText ISBN:9781137001139
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.