Culture of Calamity Disaster and the Making of Modern America

Name: Culture of Calamity Disaster and the Making of Modern America
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ISBN: 9780226725703

ISBN-10: 0226725707

ISBN-13: 9780226725703

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kevin Rozario

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Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of environmental devastation all contribute to an atmosphere of imminent doom. But reading an account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, with its vivid evocation of buildings "crumbling as one might crush a biscuit," we see that calamities--whether natural or man-made--have long had an impact on the American consciousness. Uncovering the history of Americans' responses to disaster from their colonial past up to the present, Kevin Rozario…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Golden Age as Catastrophe



The People of Calamity: Catastrophic Optimism in Early America


Interlude: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906



What Comes Down Must Go Up: Disasters and the Making of American Capitalism



"That Enchanted Morning": Or, How Americans Learned to Love Disasters