{"product_id":"inventing-disaster-9781469679327","title":"Inventing Disaster","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKierner presents an in-depth, well-researched and persuasive thesis for the beginning and eventual continuation of a cultural mind-set that has remained fairly intact since the 19th-century.\" - \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] spectacular volume. . . . clearly and convincingly argued, grounded in extensive research in a host of records, and extremely well-written with both a scholarly and a broader audience in mind. . . . Here is an opportunity to help scholars and students understand our own times more profoundly by examining earlier catastrophes.\" - \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Presents a complex and fascinating argument. . . . Meticulously researched and annotated, \u003ci\u003eInventing Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e offers detailed descriptions of disasters, provides context, and documents community and public responses.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New England Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kierner offers a clear and cogent analysis of the ways that societies across three centuries of British Atlantic and early US history conceptualized, came to terms with, and then responded to large-scale, sudden, and unexpected loss. \u003ci\u003eInventing Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e deserves space on the shelves not merely of historians interested in the niche topic of disaster but of anyone interested in the development during these three centuries of print culture, religion, science, moral philosophy, technology, or government.\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While Kierner is often able to provide fascinating insights by covering topics, such as shipwrecks, that are rarely explored, she is also more than able to provide similar insights when considering events that have been written about more extensively. . . . \u003ci\u003eInventing Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e provides a very effective and vital summation of the development of the primarily American culture of disaster.\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well-conceived and engaging . . . Kierner uncovers the historical roots of disaster relief and explains how our modern response to disaster reflects a centuries-long tussle with the forces of modernity. All this and more make \u003ci\u003eInventing Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e a valuable and, indeed, timely title.\" - \u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An ambitious, timely book that will likely become only more relevant in the years to come. Kierner provides a much-needed history of our modern culture of calamity . . . [and] a deeply researched, compelling framework that will resonate far beyond disaster history or early American studies.\" —\u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578052186455,"sku":"9781469679327","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781469679327.jpg?v=1746097674","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inventing-disaster-9781469679327","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}