Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster

By Samuel Henry Prince · Running time 04:46:16 · Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb. "The following pages [are] the result of an observational study of the social phenomena attendant upon one of the greatest catastrophes in history—the Halifax Disaster. "[This book is not] a history of the disaster. It is rather, as the title suggests, an intensive study of two social orders, between which stands a great catastrophe, and its thesis is the place of catastrophe in social change. "The account deals first with the shock and disintegration as the writer observed it. Individual and group react

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