Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster
Author: first_name: Samuel Henry
last_name: Prince
Language: English
Year: 1920

The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb.<br><br>

"The following pages [are] the result of an observational study of the social phenomena attendant upon one of the greatest catastrophes in history—the Halifax Disaster. <br><br>

"[This book is not] a history of the disaster. It is rather, as the title suggests, an intensive study of two social orders, between which stands a great catastrophe, and its thesis is the place of catastrophe in soci