A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk: Imagining the Future

ISBN-13: 9781032173689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Gaspar Mairal

Opis

This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources and will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management.

Spis treści

1. The Mediterranean Origin of Risk  2. The Conquest of the Ocean  3. When Risk Navigated to the Americas: The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus  4. When Risk Set Foot in the Americas  5. From Narrative to the Probability Calculus  6. Daniel Defoe and A Journal of the Plague Year  7. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, or the First Modern Catastrophe  8. Conclusion: risk in its historical context  Index

O autorze

Gaspar Mairal is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.