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The Causes And Remedies Of Impending National Calamities
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Author : Samuel Ramsay Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
The Causes And Remedies Of Impending National Calamities written by Samuel Ramsay Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Slavery categories.
Calamities
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Author : Jamestown Editorial Group
language : en
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
Release Date : 1994
Calamities written by Jamestown Editorial Group and has been published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Culture Of Calamity
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Author : Kevin Rozario
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Culture Of Calamity written by Kevin Rozario and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
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 atmosphere of imminent doom. But reading an account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, with its vivid evocation of buildings “crumbling as one might crush a biscuit,” we see that calamities—whether natural or man-made—have long had an impact on the American consciousness. Uncovering the history of Americans’ responses to disaster from their colonial past up to the present, Kevin Rozario reveals the vital role that calamity—and our abiding fascination with it—has played in the development of this nation. Beginning with the Puritan view of disaster as God’s instrument of correction, Rozario explores how catastrophic events frequently inspired positive reactions. He argues that they have shaped American life by providing an opportunity to take stock of our values and social institutions. Destruction leads naturally to rebuilding, and here we learn that disasters have been a boon to capitalism, and, paradoxically, indispensable to the construction of dominant American ideas of progress. As Rozario turns to the present, he finds that the impulse to respond creatively to disasters is mitigated by a mania for security. 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; how apocalyptic literature, like the best-selling Left Behind series, recycles Puritan religious outlooks while adopting Hollywood’s sty≤ and how the convergence of these two ways of imagining disaster points to a new postmodern culture of calamity. The Culture of Calamity will stand as the definitive diagnosis of the peculiarly American addiction to the spectacle of destruction.
Calamities Catastrophes
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Author : Derek Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-12-04
Calamities Catastrophes written by Derek Wilson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-04 with History categories.
Originally published: London: Short Books, 2011.
Man And Society In Calamity
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Author : Pitirim A. Sorokin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Man And Society In Calamity written by Pitirim A. Sorokin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Social Science categories.
This is an age of great calamities. War and revolution, famine and pestilence, are again rampant on this planet, and they still exact their deadly toll from suffering humanity. Calamities influence every moment of our existence: our mentality and behavior, our social life and cultural processes. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think and every action we perform. In this classic volume, Sorokin attempts to account for the effects these calamities exert on the mental processes, behavior, social organization, and cultural life of the population involved. In what way do famine and pestilence, war and revolution tend to modify our mind and conduct, our social organization and cultural life? To what extent do they succeed in this, and when and why do they prove less effective? What are the causes of these calamities, and what are the ways out? In dealing with these problems Sorokin tries to give a detailed description of the typical effects of famine and pestilence, war and revolution, such as have repeatedly occurred in all major catastrophes of this kind. To use academic language, he attempts to formulate the principal uniformities regularly manifested during such calamities. This book is a forgotten masterpiece of explanation and prediction. It opened new fields of study and broadened the scope of existing specialties.
The Beginning Of Calamities
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Author : Tom House
language : en
Publisher: Bridgeworks
Release Date : 2004-04-01
The Beginning Of Calamities written by Tom House and has been published by Bridgeworks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Set in a blue-collar Long Island suburb in the 1970's, this is a story of the awkwardness and agony of childhood. An eleven-year-old Catholic school student writes a Passion play, ends up in the role of Christ, and develops his own Messiah complex.
The Causes And Remedies Of Impending National Calamities
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Author : Samuel Ramsay Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-16
The Causes And Remedies Of Impending National Calamities written by Samuel Ramsay Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-16 with Political Science categories.
Excerpt from The Causes and Remedies of Impending National Calamities: An AddressIT should seem that we are upon the eve of CIVIL war. Already is the atmosphere murky with those clouds which hang like a funereal pall over the burning volcano. Already do we feel those strange vibrations which admonish that the pent-up fires are struggling to break over their accustomed barriers, and pour their lava tide over field, and city, and hamlet. The most thoughtless have ceased to laugh at the threatening calamity; the wisest and the bravest feel their hearts beat slower as they look around for some means to avert the danger, or prepare bravely to meet it. In the North there is denunciation; in the South there is menace. Everywhere the mingled sound of hesitation, preparation, action. The sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing, because of those things which seem to be coming upon the land.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Learning And Calamities
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Author : Heike Egner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Learning And Calamities written by Heike Egner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with Social Science categories.
It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is hardly any learning and, if so, that it rarely lasts more than one or two generations. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities happens at all, and if learning takes place, under which conditions it can be achieved and what would be required to ensure that learned cognitive and practical knowledge will endure on a societal level. The contributions of this book include various fields of scientific research: history, sociology, geography, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, development studies and political studies, as well as disaster research and disaster risk reduction research.
Calamities
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Author : Renee Gladman
language : en
Publisher: Wave Books
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Calamities written by Renee Gladman and has been published by Wave Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Literary Collections categories.
WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from CLMP A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original voices in contemporary literature. Each essay takes a day as its point of inquiry, observing the body as it moves through time, architecture, and space, gradually demanding a new logic and level of consciousness from the narrator and reader.
American Disasters
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Author : Ballard C. Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
American Disasters written by Ballard C. Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Accidents categories.
Chronologically lists over two hundred disasters, both manmade and natural, that occurred in America, from Columbus's voyage in 1492 to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.