Rethinking American Disasters
eBook - ePub

Rethinking American Disasters

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Rethinking American Disasters

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Rethinking American Disasters by Cynthia A. Kierner,Matthew Mulcahy,Liz Skilton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Historical Theory & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. A New World of Disaster: Hazards, Environments, and Experience in Colonial British America
  7. An Incendiary War: Conspiracies, Disasters, and the American Revolution, 1775–1790
  8. An American Plague: Yellow Fever in the United States, 1793–1820
  9. Misinformation and the Politics of Reporting on Disasters in the Early Republic
  10. The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the Legal Architecture of Disaster
  11. Brave Men and Mangled Ladies: Spectacle, Sentiment, and Exploding Steamboats in Antebellum America
  12. Spring Floods and Settler Colonial Ambivalence: A Microhistory of Freshets on Wright’s Island in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  13. Richmond’s Year of Disasters: Relief, Reconciliation, and the End of Reconstruction
  14. The Slow Disaster of Jim Crow and Lowcountry Hurricanes, 1893–1940
  15. Layers of Violence: Slow Disaster in the Cancer Alley Anthropocene
  16. A Collision of Disasters: COVID-19 and Diabetes
  17. The Myth of the 100-Year Flood: The Language of Risk and the 2016 Louisiana Floods
  18. Contributors
  19. Index