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Catastrophe : stories and lessons from the Halifax Explosion /
"On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when volatile cargo on the SS Mont-Blanc freighter exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. More than nineteen hundred people were killed and nine thousand injured. Across more than two square kilometres some 1200 h...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. I Samuel Henry Prince
- ch. II The Collision
- ch. III Response to the Collision
- ch. IV The Explosion
- ch. V Helping the Victims
- ch. VI The Panic That Wasn't
- ch. VII Treating the Injured
- ch. VIII Organizing the Response
- ch. IX The Magnificent Railways
- ch. X The Deluge
- ch. XI The American Invasion
- ch. XII Emergency Hospitals
- ch. XIII Social Assistance
- ch. XIV The American Legend
- ch. XV Dealing with the Dead
- ch. XVI Media Distortions
- ch. XVII Blaming the French
- ch. XVIII Why It Happened
- ch. XIX Return to Normalcy
- ch. XX Lessons from the Explosion.