"A provocative and illuminating collection"
--"Publishers Weekly"
Long after the dead have been buried, and lives and property
rebuilt, the social and cultural impact of disasters lingers.
Examining immediate and long term responses to such disasters as
the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and
the Challenger explosion, American Disasters explores what natural
and man made catastrophes reveal about the societies in which they
occur.
Ranging widely, essayists here examine the 1900 storm that
ravaged Galveston, Texas, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the
Titanic sinking, the Northridge earthquake, the crash of Air
Florida Flight 90, the 1977 Chicago El train crash, and many other
devastating events. These catastrophes elicited vastly different
responses, and thus raise a number of important questions. How, for
example did African Americans, feminists, and labor activists
respond to the Titanic disaster? Why did the El train crash take on
such symbolic meaning for the citizens of Chicago? In what ways did
the San Francisco earthquake reaffirm rather than challenge a
predominant faith in progress?
Taken together, these essays explain how and why disasters are
transformative, how people make sense of them, how they function as
social dramas during which communities and the nation think aloud
about themselves and their direction.
Contributors include Carl Smith, Duane A. Gill, Ann Larabee, J.
Steven Picou, and Ted Steinberg.
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