The Culture of Calamity
Disaster and the Making of Modern America
324 pages, 20 halftones 6 x 9
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2007
Cloth $27.50
ISBN: 9780226725703
Published August 2007
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Golden Age as Catastrophe
1. The People of Calamity
Catastrophic Optimism in Early America
Interlude
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
2. What Comes Down Must Go Up
Disasters and the Making of American Capitalism
3. “That Enchanted Morning”
Or, How Americans Learned to Love Disasters
4. The Modern Way of Disaster
The Nuclear Age and the Origins of Federal Emergency Management5. The Ends of Disaster
The Culture of Calamity in the Age of Terror
Epilogue
A Reckoning: Hurricane Katrina and the “Murder” of New Orleans
Notes
Index
Awards
- New England American Studies Association Award
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