Cindy Ermus Knihy

This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. This concise history looks at a series of case studies from the eighteenth century through to COVID-19.

An innovative new study of the transnational ramifications of the 1720 Plague of Provence in port cities across the early modern Atlantic world, situated at the nexus of the history of medicine, disaster studies, and the diplomatic history of the eighteenth century.