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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.

Rethinking American Disasters

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Paperback / softback by Cynthia A. Kierner , Matthew Mulcahy

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Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States... Read more

    Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
    Publication Date: 30/04/2023
    ISBN13: 9780807179932, 978-0807179932
    ISBN10: 0807179930

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    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.

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