Rethinking American Disasters

Cynthia A. Kierner,Matthew Mulcahy,Liz Skilton

• Editore: LSU Press
• Anno: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780807179833
• Argomento: Scienze sociali
• Categoria: Studi sullo sviluppo globale

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.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• A New World of Disaster: Hazards, Environments, and Experience in Colonial British America
• An Incendiary War: Conspiracies, Disasters, and the American Revolution, 1775–1790
• An American Plague: Yellow Fever in the United States, 1793–1820
• Misinformation and the Politics of Reporting on Disasters in the Early Republic
• The Great New York Fire of 1835 and the Legal Architecture of Disaster
• Brave Men and Mangled Ladies: Spectacle, Sentiment, and Exploding Steamboats in Antebellum America
• Spring Floods and Settler Colonial Ambivalence: A Microhistory of Freshets on Wright’s Island in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
• Richmond’s Year of Disasters: Relief, Reconciliation, and the End of Reconstruction
• The Slow Disaster of Jim Crow and Lowcountry Hurricanes, 1893–1940
• Layers of Violence: Slow Disaster in the Cancer Alley Anthropocene
• A Collision of Disasters: COVID-19 and Diabetes
• The Myth of the 100-Year Flood: The Language of Risk and the 2016 Louisiana Floods
• Contributors
• Index