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American disasters / edited by Steven Biel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--United States--History.
- Disasters.
- Disasters--Social aspects--United States.
- Disasters--United States--Psychological aspects.
- National characteristics, American.
- Psychological aspects.
- Disasters--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- United States--History--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: On the Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition and the Production of Disasters / Steven Biel 1
- I Capital
- 1 "A Tempestuous Spirit Called Hurri Cano": Hurricanes and Colonial Society in the British Greater Caribbean / Matthew Mulcahy 11
- 2 "The Hungry Year": 1789 on the Northern Border of Revolutionary America / Alan Taylor 39
- 3 What Comes Down Must Go Up: Why Disasters Have Been Good for American Capitalism / Kevin Rozario 72
- 4 Smoke and Mirrors: The San Francisco Earthquake and Seismic Denial / Ted Steinberg 103
- II Faith
- 5 Faith and Doubt: The Imaginative Dimensions of the Great Chicago Fire / Carl Smith 129
- 6 Distant Disasters, Local Fears: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Revolution, and Passion in The Atlantic Monthly, 1880-84 / Sheila Hones 170
- 7 "Nothing Ends Here": Managing the Challenger Disaster / Ann Larabee 197
- III Community
- 8 "It Must Be Made Safe": Galveston, Texas, and the 1900 Storm / Patricia Bellis Bixel 223
- 9 Chicago on the Brink: Media Trauma and the 1977 L-Train Crash / Andrew Hazucha 247
- 10 The Day the Water Died: The Exxon Valdez Disaster and Indigenous Culture / Duane A. Gill, J. Steven Picou 277
- IV Possibility
- 11 "Unknown and Unsung": Feminist, African American, and Radical Responses to the Titanic Disaster / Steven Biel 305
- 12 "Piecing Together What History Has Broken to Bits": Air Florida Flight 90 and the PATCO Disaster / Ralph James Savarese 339
- 13 The Exxon Valdez and Alaska in the American Imagination / Thomas A. Birkland, Reigna G. Lawrence 382.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814713459
- 0814713467
- OCLC:
- 47289248
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