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Author Rozario, Kevin.

Title The culture of calamity : disaster and the making of modern America / Kevin Rozario.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 ROZARIO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 R81    Check Shelf
Description x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-294) and index.
Contents 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 -- The modern way of disaster : the nuclear age and the origins of federal emergency management -- The ends of disaster : the culture of calamity in the age of terror -- Epilogue: A reckoning : Hurricane Katrina and the "murder" of New Orleans.
Subject Disasters -- United States -- History.
Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Disasters -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History.
National characteristics, American.
United States -- Civilization.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780226725703 cloth alkaline paper
0226725707 cloth alkaline paper
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