Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark.Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

• 1. Introduction: Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience[Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi]Part 1: Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment and Absolutism2. Surviving the Siege: Catastrophe, Gender and Memory in La Rochelle [Deborah Simonton]3. Between Despair And Hope: The 1755 Earthquake In Lisbon [Helena Murteira]4. Drowned in Westminster: A Social Catastrophe in a West London Suburb, 1550-1650 [Imtiaz Habib and Michan Myer]5. The Plague and the Urban Police in Montpellier at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century [Nicolas Vidoni]6. Catastrophe, the Civilizing Process and the Urban Built Environment in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World [Emma Hart]Part 2: Catastrophe in the Age of Democracy7. Catastrophe, Emotions and Guilt : The Great Fire of Turku, 1827 [Hannu Salmi]8. Personal Catastrophe, Communal Misfortune: Bankruptcy in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Family [Jarkko Keskinen]9. City Upside Down: Laughing at the Flooding of the Danube in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna [Heidi Hakkarainen]10. The Baltic Storm Surge in November 1872: Urban Processes, Gendered Vulnerability and Scientific Transformations [Rasmus Dahlberg, Kristoffer Albris and Martin Jebens]11. Managing the Catastrophe: Cholera, Urban Community and Health Politics in Imperial Moscow [Anna Mazanik]12. One Disaster After Another: The Debate about the University of Ghent as Unfinished Business of the First World War, 1918-1923 [David J. Hensley]Guide to Further Reading

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark.Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

• 1. Introduction: Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience[Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi]Part 1: Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment and Absolutism2. Surviving the Siege: Catastrophe, Gender and Memory in La Rochelle [Deborah Simonton]3. Between Despair And Hope: The 1755 Earthquake In Lisbon [Helena Murteira]4. Drowned in Westminster: A Social Catastrophe in a West London Suburb, 1550-1650 [Imtiaz Habib and Michan Myer]5. The Plague and the Urban Police in Montpellier at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century [Nicolas Vidoni]6. Catastrophe, the Civilizing Process and the Urban Built Environment in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World [Emma Hart]Part 2: Catastrophe in the Age of Democracy7. Catastrophe, Emotions and Guilt : The Great Fire of Turku, 1827 [Hannu Salmi]8. Personal Catastrophe, Communal Misfortune: Bankruptcy in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Family [Jarkko Keskinen]9. City Upside Down: Laughing at the Flooding of the Danube in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna [Heidi Hakkarainen]10. The Baltic Storm Surge in November 1872: Urban Processes, Gendered Vulnerability and Scientific Transformations [Rasmus Dahlberg, Kristoffer Albris and Martin Jebens]11. Managing the Catastrophe: Cholera, Urban Community and Health Politics in Imperial Moscow [Anna Mazanik]12. One Disaster After Another: The Debate about the University of Ghent as Unfinished Business of the First World War, 1918-1923 [David J. Hensley]Guide to Further Reading

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark.Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku.

• 1. Introduction: Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience[Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi]Part 1: Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment and Absolutism2. Surviving the Siege: Catastrophe, Gender and Memory in La Rochelle [Deborah Simonton]3. Between Despair And Hope: The 1755 Earthquake In Lisbon [Helena Murteira]4. Drowned in Westminster: A Social Catastrophe in a West London Suburb, 1550-1650 [Imtiaz Habib and Michan Myer]5. The Plague and the Urban Police in Montpellier at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century [Nicolas Vidoni]6. Catastrophe, the Civilizing Process and the Urban Built Environment in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World [Emma Hart]Part 2: Catastrophe in the Age of Democracy7. Catastrophe, Emotions and Guilt : The Great Fire of Turku, 1827 [Hannu Salmi]8. Personal Catastrophe, Communal Misfortune: Bankruptcy in an Eighteenth-Century Merchant Family [Jarkko Keskinen]9. City Upside Down: Laughing at the Flooding of the Danube in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna [Heidi Hakkarainen]10. The Baltic Storm Surge in November 1872: Urban Processes, Gendered Vulnerability and Scientific Transformations [Rasmus Dahlberg, Kristoffer Albris and Martin Jebens]11. Managing the Catastrophe: Cholera, Urban Community and Health Politics in Imperial Moscow [Anna Mazanik]12. One Disaster After Another: The Debate about the University of Ghent as Unfinished Business of the First World War, 1918-1923 [David J. Hensley]Guide to Further Reading