Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2022

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieva…

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