Disasters : image and context.
Material type: TextSeries: Sydney studies in society and culture ; no. 7Publication details: Sydney : The Association, 1992Description: 197 p. : illISBN:- 0949405051pbk
- 303.485 DIS
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The papers were originally presented at a day long seminar entitled Contextualizing Disasters, p. 9
Introduction; The Mount Kembla mine disaster, 1902: quarrying the seams of evidence; 'Bushfires unite, floods divide': the cultural context of disasters; Shipwrecks: images and perceptions of Nineteenth Century maritime disasters; The Newcastle earthquake experience: the human context and its implications for disaster management; Constructing meaning in an epidemic interpretations of a diagnosis of HIV infection and AIDS; The Yamano disaster; Disaster and disaster-response in a mediaeval context: the first crusade; Visions of disaster in the Central Middle Ages; Coping with disaster: Florence after the Black Death; Daniel Defoe's 'A journal of the plague year'; Afterword
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