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050 00 $aE179$b.A494 2001
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245 00 $aAmerican disasters /$cedited by Steven Biel.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$cc2001.
300 $avi, 416 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : On the Titanic research and recovery expedition and the production of disasters / Steven Biel -- "A tempestuous spirit called Hurri Cano" : hurricanes and colonial society in the British greater Caribbean / Matthew Mulcahy -- " The hungry year" : 1789 on the northern border of revolutionary America / Alan Taylor -- What comes down must go up : why disasters have been good for American capitalism / Kevin Rozario -- Smoke and mirrors : the San Francisco earthquake and seismic denial / Ted Steinberg -- Faith and doubt : the imaginative dimensions of the great Chicago fire / Carl Smith -- Distant disasters, local fears : volcanoes, earthquakes, revolution, and pasion in The Atlantic Monthly, 1880-84 / Sheila Hones -- "Nothing ends here" : managing the Challenger disaster / Ann Larabee -- "It must be made safe" : Galveston, Texas, and the 1900 storm / Patricia Bellis Bixel -- Chicago on the brink : media trauma and the 1977 L-train crash / Andrew Hazucha -- The day the water died : the Exxon Valdez, disaster and indigenous culture / Duane A. Gill, J. Steven Picou --"Unknown and unsung" : feminist, African American, and radical responses to the Titanic disaster / Steven Biel -- "Piecing together what history has broken to bits" : Air Florida flight 90 and the PATCO disaster / Ralph James Savarese -- The Exxon Valdez and Alaska in the American imagination / Thomas A. Birkland, Regina G. Lawrence.
650 0 $aDisasters$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aDisasters$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aDisasters$zUnited States$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$vAnecdotes.
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