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Rethinking American Disasters

Rethinking American Disasters

Scott Knowles
Barcode 9780807179932
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Release Date: 30/04/2023

Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Social Sciences
Label: Louisiana State University Press
Contributors: Liz Skilton (Edited by), Cynthia A. Kierner (Edited by), Matthew Mulcahy (Edited by), Sarah Naramore (Contributions by), Scott Knowles (Contributions by), Alyssa Fahringer (Contributions by), Ashley Rogers (Contributions by), Jane Manners (Contributions by), Jonathan Hancock (Contributions by), Benjamin Carp (Contributions by), Caroline Grego (Contributions by), Thomas Wickman (Contributions by), Richard Mizelle (Contributions by)
Language: English
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

A groundbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. The collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.
Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a "natural" disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.

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