Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire: Famines, Fevers and the Literary Cultures of South Asia

Mukherjee, U.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349433575

DOI: 10.1057/9781137001139

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 221