Contributors
Jennifer Hamilton
Articles
History of Cultural Responses to Disastrous Storms (1612-2012)
Disaster & Fortitude
Jennifer Hamilton reviews English and European responses to big storms over time and suggests that even today we need "the more metaphysical dimensions of our existence – the cultural, social and political – to even begin to understand how thunder, lightning, strong winds and an abundance of water falling from the sky can still completely destroy a city and change the course of history."