| Author | : Frances Kennett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780856851353 |
Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century
| Author | : Michael J. Oliver |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781847205490 |
The First and Second World Wars, the great depression, oil shocks, inflation, financial crises, stock market crashes, the collapse of the Soviet command economy and Third World disasters are discussed in this comprehensive book. The contributors subject these disasters to in-depth assessment, carefully considering their costs and impact on specific countries and regions, as well as assessing them in a global context. The book examines the legacy of economic disasters and asks whether economic disasters are avoidable or whether policymakers can learn from their mistakes.
Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century
| Author | : Samuel Upton Newtan |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Nuclear accidents |
| ISBN | : 1425985114 |
During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people died from the use of nuclear weapons in Nuclear War I and other nuclear disasters. Dr. Newtan's book describes the disastrous consequences of the following nuclear developments all of which occurred in the 20th century: The Trinity Test of a nuclear device (explosion) The destruction of Hiroshima by a uranium bomb The destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb The hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, and cobalt bomb Radioactive fallout Radiological weapons The BRAVO Test (hydrogen bomb) Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster Fermi I breeder reactor disaster Nuclear submarine disasters (U.S., U.S.S.R.) Thresher nuclear submarine disaster Scorpion nuclear submarine disaster Nuclear satellite disasters Lost nuclear weapons Lost nuclear fissile materials for weapons Nuclear waste disasters Acts of war on nuclear facilities Nuclear terrorism Proliferation of nuclear weapons Nuclear reactors in space Nuclear weapons in space Nuclear waste can it be safely stored for millennia?
Disasters and Tragic Events [2 volumes]
| Author | : Mitchell Newton-Matza |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 1389 |
| Release | : 2014-03-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. Tragedies and disasters have always been part of the fabric of American history. Some gave rise to reactions that profoundly influenced the nation. Others dominated public consciousness for a moment, then disappeared from collective memory. Organized chronologically, Disasters and Tragic Events examines these moments, covering both the familiar and the obscure and probing their immediate and long-term effects. Unlike other works that concentrate on a particular type of disaster, for example, weather- or medicine-related tragedies, this two-volume encyclopedia has no such limits. Its entries range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, to civic disturbances, environmental disasters, epidemics and medical errors, transportation accidents, and more. The work is a perfect supplement for history classes and will also prove of great interest to the general reader.
The 10 Worst Natural Disasters
| Author | : Karen Uhler |
| Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781554484690 |
Oversized books written in the popular top-ten countdown format.
Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History
| Author | : Ballard C. Campbell |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1438130120 |
Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks.
Disasters and History
| Author | : Bas van Bavel |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2020-10-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108752381 |
Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Great Naval Disasters
| Author | : Kit Bonner |
| Publisher | : Zenith Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780760305942 |
Landlubbers beware! Great Naval Disasters is a collection of 19 incredible stories of ill-fated ships, each including a full recounting of the ship's early history, the events surrounding her tragedy, and her ultimate misfortune. The most deadly enemies of the warship other than combat - collision, explosion, fire, grounding, and, of course, the mysterious and curious... Contains accounts of raging fires on the USS Enterprise, USS Uriskany, USS Forrestal, and USS Constellation.
Wounded Cities: The Representation of Urban Disasters in European Art (14th-20th Centuries)
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2015-05-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004300686 |
Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of those calamities, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. It contains nine case studies which discuss, among others, the relationship between biblical imagery and the realistic depiction of urban disasters; the religious, political and ritual meanings of “destruction subjects” in early modern painting; the image of fire in Renaissance treatises on architecture; the first photographic campaigns documenting earthquakes’ damages; the role of contemporary art in the elaboration of a cultural memory of urban destructions. Thus, this book intends to address one of the main issues of Western civilization: the relationship of European towns with their own past and its discontinuities. Contributors are Alessandro Del Puppo, Isabella di Lenardo, Marco Folin, Sophie Goetzmann, Emanuela Guidoboni, Philippe Malgouyres, Olga Medvedkova, Fabrizio Nevola, Monica Preti and Tiziana Serena.
