1 option
Rethinking American disasters / edited by Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--United States--History.
- Disasters.
- Disasters--Environmental aspects--United States--History.
- Disasters--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Environmentally induced diseases--United States--History.
- Environmentally induced diseases.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (unpaged)
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton
- A New World of disaster : hazards, environments, and experience in colonial British America / Matthew Mulcahy
- An incendiary war : conspiracies, disasters, and the American Revolution, 1775-1790 / Benjamin L. Carp
- An American plague : yellow fever in the United States, 1793-1820 / Sarah E. Naramore
- Misinformation and the politics of reporting on disasters in the early republic / Jonathan Todd Hancock
- The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the legal architecture of disaster / Jane Manners
- Brave men and mangled ladies : spectacle, sentiment, and exploding steamboats in antebellum America / Cynthia A. Kierner
- Spring floods and settler colonial ambivalence : a microhistory of Freshets on Wright's Island in the mid-nineteenth century / Tom Wickman
- Richmond's year of disasters : relief, reconciliation, and the end of Reconstruction / Alyssa Toby Fahringer
- The slow disaster of Jim Crow and Lowcountry hurricanes, 1893-1940 / Caroline Grego
- Layers of violence : slow disaster in the cancer alley anthropocene
- Scott Gabriel Knowles and Ashley Rogers
- A collision of disasters : COVID-19 and diabetes
- Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
- The myth of the 100-year flood : the language of risk and the 2016 Louisiana floods / Liz Skilton.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 15, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rethinking American disasters
- ISBN:
- 9780807179833
- 0807179833
- 9780807179840
- 0807179841
- Publisher Number:
- 40031652092
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.