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The Culture Of Calamity : Disaster And The Making Of Modern America

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Kevin Rozario
Publication Details
Book, University of Chicago Press, 2007
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Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. Beginning with the Puritan view of disaster as God?s instrument of correction, Rozario explores how catastrophic events frequently inspired positive reactions. Terror alerts and duct tape represent the cynical politician?s attitude about 9/11, but Rozario focuses on how the attacks registered in the popular imagination?how responses to genuine calamity were mediated by the hyperreal thrills of movies; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Rozario, Kevin
Subject
Contents
- Introduction: The Golden Age as catastrophe
- The people of calamity : catastrophic optimism in early America
- Interlude: The San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 - - What comes down must go up : disasters and the making of American capitalism
- "That enchanted morning" : or, How Americans learned to love disasters
- The modern way of disaster : the nuclear age and the origins of federal emergency management
- The ends of disaster : the culture of calamity in the age of terror
- Epilogue: A reckoning : Hurricane Katrina and the "murder" of New Orleans
ISBN
- 9780226725703
- 0226725707
LCCN
- 2006034202
Open Library ID
- /b/OL9633918M