| Description |
vi, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : 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 and 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 and Regina G. Lawrence. |
| Subject |
Disasters -- United States -- History.
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Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Disasters -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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National characteristics, American.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Biel, Steven, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0814713467 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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