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Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Using scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, Inventing Disaster moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Inventing Disaster within history and social science, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Inventing Disaster emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2019
Format: Print edition
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9781469652511

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