Risk, catastrophe and emergency management in Western Mediterranean and Spanish America in the early modern age

Armando Alberola Romá; Domenico Cecere

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-128-4

Risk, catastrophe and emergency management in Western Mediterranean and Spanish America in the early modern age: tribute to Jean-Philippe Luis

Authors

Armando Alberola Romá

Universidad de Alicante

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-9239

Domenico Cecere

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-5475

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-128-4

Keywords:

Disasters, Environmental History, emergency management, 18th Century, Bourbon Monarchies

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA Press - Federico II Open Access University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 276

Language: Spanish, Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-28255

Abstract: The volume includes a significant part of the findings of an interdisciplinary and international research project on disasters that occurred in the territories under the Bourbon monarchies between the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is composed of twelve essays that explore the strategies and practices by which institutions and societies sought to manage, mitigate and prevent the catastrophic effects of eruptions, earthquakes, floods, famine and epidemics. The articles address several territories, that are geographically distant and widely different from each other – from the western Mediterranean to Central and South America – between the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions. Although these areas were ruled by members of the same dynasty, the political and administrative structures and legal systems were different, and the emergency management strategies were dissimilar too. The project involved three research groups, based in European and Latin American universities, coordinated by Jean-Philippe Luis, Armando Alberola and Domenico Cecere. The volume is dedicated to the memory of Jean-Philippe Luis.

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Author Biographies

Armando Alberola Romá, Universidad de Alicante

Armando Alberola Romá is Professor of Early modern History at the University of Alicante. His main research interests address the impact of environmental, climatic, and biological disasters on early modern societies and economy. His publications include Los cambios climáticos. La Pequeña Edad del Hielo en España (2014), Clima, desastres y convulsiones sociales en España e Hispanoamérica (2016, with Luis A. Arrioja), Riesgo, desastre y miedo en la península Ibérica y México durante la Edad Moderna (2017) and La Pequeña Edad del Hielo a ambos lados del Atlántico (2021, with Virginia García Acosta).

Domenico Cecere, University of Naples Federico II

Domenico Cecere is Associate Professor of Early modern History at the University of Naples Federico II. His research focuses on popular politics and social conflicts, on integration and exclusion in early modern Naples, and on the representations of and reactions to disasters in the Spanish Empire. His publications include the monograph Le armi del popolo. Conflitti politici e strategie di resistenza nella Calabria del Settecento (2013) and the collective volume Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples (2018).