On disasters and popular culture / Russell R. Dynes.

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TextSeries: Preliminary paper (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 295Publication details: [Newark, Del.] : University of Delaware, 2000Description: 5 leavesSubject(s):

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363.340306 21

Subject: The author discusses ideas from three books: Hans Blumenberg. "Shipwreck with spectator: paradigm of a metaphor for existence". (Cambridge, MIT Pres, 1997); Francis Fukuyama. "The great disruption: human nature and the reconstitution of social order". (New York, The Free Press, 1999); John Barry. "Rising tide: the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1997)

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Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.340306 OND (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011655638

'Based on remarks on a panel "Exploring the Popular Culture of Disasters" International Research Committee on Disasters, Chicago, August 8, 1999"'--P. 5

The author discusses ideas from three books: Hans Blumenberg. "Shipwreck with spectator: paradigm of a metaphor for existence". (Cambridge, MIT Pres, 1997); Francis Fukuyama. "The great disruption: human nature and the reconstitution of social order". (New York, The Free Press, 1999); John Barry. "Rising tide: the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. (New York, Simon and Schuster, 1997)

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