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Introduction: On the Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition and the Production of Disasters | 1 | |
1 | Capital | |
1 | "A Tempestuous Spirit Called Hurri Cano": Hurricanes and Colonial Society in the British Greater Caribbean | 11 |
2 | "The Hungry Year": 1789 on the Northern Border of Revolutionary America | 39 |
3 | What Comes Down Must Go Up: Why Disasters Have Been Good for American Capitalism | 72 |
4 | Smoke and Mirrors: The San Francisco Earthquake and Seismic Denial | 103 |
II | Faith | |
5 | Faith and Doubt: The Imaginative Dimensions of the Great Chicago Fire | 129 |
6 | Distant Disasters, Local Fears: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Revolution, and Passion in The Atlantic Monthly, 1880-84 | 170 |
7 | "Nothing Ends Here": Managing the Challenger Disaster | 197 |
III | Community | |
8 | "It Must Be Made Safe": Galveston, Texas, and the 1900 Storm | 223 |
9 | Chicago on the Brink: Media Trauma and the 1977 L-Train Crash | 247 |
10 | The Day the Water Died: The Exxon Valdez Disaster and Indigenous Culture | 277 |
IV | Possibility | |
11 | "Unknown and Unsung": Feminist, African American, and Radical Responses to the Titanic Disaster | 305 |
12 | "Piecing Together What History Has Broken to Bits": Air Florida Flight 90 and the PATCO Disaster | 339 |
13 | The Exxon Valdez and Alaska in the American Imagination | 382 |
Contributors | 403 | |
Permissions | 407 | |
Index | 409 |
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