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Ground zero : a reassessment of the 1917 explosion in Halifax Harbour / co-edited by Alan Ruffman and Colin D. Howell.
- Title
- Ground zero : a reassessment of the 1917 explosion in Halifax Harbour / co-edited by Alan Ruffman and Colin D. Howell.
- Publication
- Halifax, N.S. : Co-published by Nimbus Pub. Ltd. and Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University, 1994.
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- Description
- viii, 484 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Note
- "Papers presented at a conference hosted by the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University on December 3-6, 1992"--P. 1.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / by Colin D. Howell & Alan Ruffman -- Historical views -- Halifax harbour, December 6, 1917: setting the scene / by David Sutherland -- The explosion mortuary artefacts: a look at the victims / by Joan M. Payzant -- Turtle grove: Dartmouth's lost Mikmaq community / by Jennifer Burke -- The place of the explosion in the history of disaster research: the work of Samuel H. Prince / by Russell R. Dynes and E.L. Quarantelli -- More source than influence: Johnstone's contribution to Prince's dissertation / by Joseph Scanlon and Gillian Osborne -- Archibald MacMechan and the writings of "The Halifax disaster" / by Henry Roper -- Literary expressions -- Through the eyes of Annie Leake Tuttle: the old ladies' home and the 1917 explosion / by Marilyln Fardig Whiteley -- A semiotic blast / by Donna E. Smyth -- The Halifax harbour explosion: fact, fiction, and focal point / by Judith Dudar -- Creating fiction out of fact / by Robert MacNeil --^
- Post cards of the 1917 explosion / by Bernard G. Kline -- "The explosion": a play / by Jennette White -- Relief and medical responses -- Private wealth and public health: Rockefeller philanthropy and the Massachusetts-Halifax Relief Committee / Health Commission / by William J. Buxton -- "Never handmaidens": the Victorian Order of Nurses and the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission / by Suzanne Morton -- Searching the wreckage for signs of region: Newfoundland and the Halifax harbour explosion / by Malcolm MacLeod -- After the storm: the church and synagogue response / by Allen B. Robertson -- Medical aspects of the disaster: the missing report of Dr. David Fraser Harris / by T.J. Murray -- Medical memories of the 1917 explosion / by Neena Abraham -- Scientific aspects -- Exploding myths: the Halifax harbour explosion in historical context / by Jay White -- Explosions, bombs, and bumps: scientific aspects of the explosion / by David Simpson and Alan Ruffman --^
- Realities, myths, and misconceptions of the explosion / by Alan Ruffman and David Simpson -- The Tsunami from the explosion in Halifax Harbour / by Alan Ruffman, David A. Greenberg, and Tad S. Murty -- Seabed impacts of the explosion of the Mont Blanc / by Gordon B.J. Fader -- Legal issues -- Another calamity: the litigation / by Donald A. Kerr -- A look back at the collision of the Imo and the Mont Blanc with seventy-five years of hindsight / by Robert C.P. Power -- Reconstruction -- The hydrostone phoenix: garden city planning and the reconstruction of Halifax, 1917-21 / by Ernest Clarke -- Halifax, Nova Scotia: a study of the effects of disaster on urban morphology / by Janice H. Miller -- A vision of regeneration: reconstruction after the Halifax harbour explosion, 1917-21 / by Garry Shutlak.
- ISBN
- 1551090953
- LCCN
- ^^^95111286^
- OCLC
- 31518913
- SCSB-12614435
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library