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Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events
University of Wisconsin Press, 2001 Paper: 978-0-87972-834-2 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-833-5 Library of Congress Classification BF789.D5O73 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 155.93
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The essays in this collection present communities beset by unexpected social and physical events. Some outline immediate responses that soon pass and some that will not go away. Who would have foreseen that Elvis would be a phenomenon apparently as lasting as the faces on Mount Rushmore? Cultural history will not allow us to forget the H. G. Wells account of the Martian attack, nor can we ever forget the continued terror of the Chernobyl explosion. Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events catalogues on the Geiger counter of human emotions societal reactions to events both earthshaking and culture-disturbing. See other books on: Browne, Ray B. | Disasters | Neal, Arthur B. | Post-traumatic stress disorder | Stress (Psychology) See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events
ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Wisconsin Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-87972-834-2
Cloth: 978-0-87972-833-5
Paper: 978-0-87972-834-2
Cloth: 978-0-87972-833-5
The essays in this collection present communities beset by unexpected social and physical events. Some outline immediate responses that soon pass and some that will not go away. Who would have foreseen that Elvis would be a phenomenon apparently as lasting as the faces on Mount Rushmore? Cultural history will not allow us to forget the H. G. Wells account of the Martian attack, nor can we ever forget the continued terror of the Chernobyl explosion. Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events catalogues on the Geiger counter of human emotions societal reactions to events both earthshaking and culture-disturbing.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
