Cynthia A. Kierner & Matthew Mulcahy
Rethinking American Disasters [PDF ebook]

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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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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9780807179840 ● Editor Cynthia A. Kierner & Matthew Mulcahy ● Publisher LSU Press ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8798712 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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