Rethinking American Disasters /

"Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays based on new research on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Contributors include leading historians publishing in the field of disaster...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Skilton, Liz, 1985- (Editor ), Mulcahy, Matthew, 1968- (Editor ), Kierner, Cynthia A., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Environmentally induced diseases.
Disasters > Social aspects.
Disasters > Environmental aspects.
Disasters.
Environmentally induced diseases > United States > History.
Disasters > Social aspects > United States > History.
Disasters > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Disasters > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton
  • A New World of disaster : hazards, environments, and experience in colonial British America / Matthew Mulcahy
  • An incendiary war : conspiracies, disasters, and the American Revolution, 1775-1790 / Benjamin L. Carp
  • An American plague : yellow fever in the United States, 1793-1820 / Sarah E. Naramore
  • Misinformation and the politics of reporting on disasters in the early republic / Jonathan Todd Hancock
  • The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the legal architecture of disaster / Jane Manners
  • Brave men and mangled ladies : spectacle, sentiment, and exploding steamboats in antebellum America / Cynthia A. Kierner
  • Spring floods and settler colonial ambivalence : a microhistory of Freshets on Wright's Island in the mid-nineteenth century / Tom Wickman
  • Richmond's year of disasters : relief, reconciliation, and the end of Reconstruction / Alyssa Toby Fahringer
  • The slow disaster of Jim Crow and Lowcountry hurricanes, 1893-1940 / Caroline Grego
  • Layers of violence : slow disaster in the cancer alley anthropocene
  • Scott Gabriel Knowles and Ashley Rogers
  • A collision of disasters : COVID-19 and diabetes
  • Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
  • The myth of the 100-year flood : the lkanguage of risk and the 2016 Louisiana floods / Liz Skilton.

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