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

by Rozario, Kevin.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

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.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034202.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2006034202-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0707/2006034202-d.html

9780226725703 (cloth : alk. paper)

0226725707 (cloth : alk. paper)

x, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

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