The 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 environmental devastation all contribute to an...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007
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