Rethinking American Disasters

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Rethinking American Disasters is written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by LSU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807179833 (ISBN 10) and 9780807179833 (ISBN 13).

Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a “natural” disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.