Rethinking American Disasters

Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, Liz Skilton (Herausgeber)

Benjamin Carp, Alyssa Fahringer (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2023
Louisiana State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8071-7993-2 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. The collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.

Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a "natural" disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.

Cynthia A. Kierner is the author of many books, including Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood. Matthew Mulcahy has written or cowritten several books and articles about natural disasters in colonial British America, including Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. Liz Skilton is the author of Tempest: Hurricane Naming and American Culture and head of the Recent Louisiana Disasters Oral History Project.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	14 halftones, 1 map, 2 charts
Verlagsort	Baton Rouge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-8071-7993-0 / 0807179930
ISBN-13	978-0-8071-7993-2 / 9780807179932
Zustand	Neuware