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The Richmond Theater Fire : Early America's First Great Disaster
On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in anti-theater criticism that spre...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
LSU Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Baker, Meredith Henne. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Richmond Theater Fire : |b Early America's First Great Disaster |
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| 505 | 0 | |a COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PROLOGUE; 1. CATASTROPHE; 2. PANDEMONIUM; 3. LOSS; 4. MOURNING; 5. RECOVERY; 6. JUDGMENT; 7. REBUILDING; 8. REVIVAL; 9. RETURN; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Illustrations. | |
| 520 | |a On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in anti-theater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, min. | ||
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