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Title: Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood

Author : Cynthia A Kierner

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ISBN-10 : 146965251X

ISBN-13 : 9781469652511

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Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood BY Cynthia A Kierner

Read Online and Download Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood. When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolutions in science, information, and emotion that were part of the Age of Enlightenment in Europe and America.Beginning with the collapse of the early seventeenth-century Jamestown colony, ending with the deadly Johnstown flood of 1889, and highlighting fires, epidemics, earthquakes, and exploding steamboats along the way, Cynthia A. Kierner tells horrific stories of culturally significant calamities and their victims and charts efforts to explain, prevent, and relieve disaster-related losses. Although how we interpret and respond to disasters has changed in some ways since the nineteenth century, Kierner .

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