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Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America Book

Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America
Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America, Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of e, Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America has a rating of 3 stars
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Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America, Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of e, Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America
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  • Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America
  • Written by author Kevin Rozario
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, August 2007
  • Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of e
  • Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. The events of 9/11 and the promise of future attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, and the inevitable consequences of e
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Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: The Golden Age as Catastrophe     1
The People of Calamity: Catastrophic Optimism in Early America     31
Interlude: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906     67
What Comes Down Must Go Up: Disasters and the Making of American Capitalism     75
"That Enchanted Morning": Or, How Americans Learned to Love Disasters     101


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