Introduction: Catastrophe, gender and urban experience / Deborah Simonton and Hannu Salmi
Part 1. Catastrophe in the age of enlightenment and absolutism
Surviving the siege : catastrophe, gender and memory in La Rochelle / Deborah Simonton
Between despair and hope : the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon / Helena Murteira
Drowned in Westminster : a social catastrophe in a West London suburb, 1550-1650 / Imtiaz Habib and Michan Myer
The plague and the urban police in Montpellier at the beginning of the eighteenth century / Nicolas Vidoni
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 democracy
Catastrophe, emotions and guilt : the Great Fire of Turku, 1827 / Hannu Salmi
Personal catastrophe, communal misfortune : bankruptcy in an eighteenth-century merchant family / Jarkko Keskinen
City upside down : laughing at the flooding of the Danube in late nineteenth-century Vienna / Heidi Hakkarainen
The Baltic storm surge in November 1872 : urban processes, gendered
Vulnerability and scientific transformations / Rasmus Dahlberg, Kristoffer Albris and Martin Jebens
Managing the catastrophe : cholera, urban community and health politics in imperial Moscow / Anna Mazanik
One disaster after another : the debate about the University of Ghent as unfinished business of the First World War, 1918-1923 / David J. Hensley.