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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Solnit |
ISBN: | 9780143118077 0143118072 9780670021079 0670021075 |
OCLC Number: | 1290260450 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Viking, 2009. |
Description: | viii, 353 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Prelude : falling together -- A millennial good fellowship : the San Francisco earthquake -- Halifax to Hollywood : the great debate -- Carnival and revolution : Mexico City's earthquake -- The city transfigured : New York in grief and glory -- New Orleans : common grounds and killers -- Epilogue : the doorway in the ruins. |
Other Titles: | Extraordinary communities that arise in disaster |
Responsibility: | Rebecca Solnit. |
Abstract:
Explores the phenomenon through which people become resourceful and altruistic after a disaster and communities reflect a shared sense of purpose, analyzing events ranging from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Hurricane Katrina.
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- Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States.
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- Communities -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
- Catastrophes -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
- Catastrophes -- Aspect social -- Mexique.
- Communauté -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.
- Altruisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.
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- Mexico.
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