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The Culture of Disaster

Title
The Culture of Disaster [electronic resource] / Marie-Hélène Huet.
Author
Huet, Marie-Hélène.
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Culture of Disaster (Online)
Alternative Title
Culture of Disaster (Online)
Subject
  • Disasters
  • World politics
  • Disasters in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Acts of God, deeds of men -- Enlightenment and the plague -- The silence of Lisbon (1755) -- The reign of cholera (1832) -- Political disasters, time in ruins -- Losing Rome (Rousseau) -- Nightwatch: terror and time -- The politics of mortality -- Tall ships and falling stars-- The face of chaos (Medusa) -- The sphinx of the ice fields -- The culture of disaster -- Now playing everywhere.
LCCN
2011050731
OCLC
ssj0000736950
Author
Huet, Marie-Hélène.
Title
The Culture of Disaster [electronic resource] / Marie-Hélène Huet.
Imprint
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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