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Rethinking American Disasters
Author | : Cynthia A. Kierner |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2023-04-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807179833 |
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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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