Inventing Disaster: The Culture of Calamity from the Jamestown Colony to the Johnstown Flood, Cynthia A. Kierner

Автор: Joann Green Byrd
Название: Calamity: The Heppner Flood of 1903
ISBN: 0295996749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295996745
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June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills south of town. When the fierce downpour reached Heppner, people gathered their children and hurried inside. Most everyone closed their doors and windows against the racket.

The thunder and pounding hail masked the sound of something they likely could not have imagined: a roaring, two-story wall of water raging toward town. Within an hour, one of every five people in the prosperous town of 1,300 would lose their lives as the floodwaters pulled apart and carried away nearly everything in their path. The center of town was devastated. Enormous drifts of debris, tangled around bodies, snaked down the valley. The telegraph was down, the railroads were out, and the mayor was in Portland.

Stunned survivors bent immediately to the dreadful tasks of searching for loved ones and carrying bodies to a makeshift morgue in the bank. By the next afternoon, thousands of individuals and communities had rushed to the town's aid, an outpouring of generosity that enabled the self-reliant citizens of Heppner to undertake the town's recovery.

In Calamity, Joann Green Byrd, a native of eastern Oregon, carefully documents this poignant story, illustrating that even the smallest acts have consequences - good or bad. She draws on a wealth of primary sources, including a moving collection of photographs, to paint a rare picture of how a small town in the West coped with disaster at the turn of the twentieth century.

Автор: Fishwick Marshall W.
Название: Jamestown
ISBN: 1684117054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684117055
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In December 1606, when they set sail from London for the Virginia coast, the people aboard the three ships anticipated the best. They would establish a British colony, find gold, and discover a water route to Asia. But what awaited them was far different - fire, hunger, sickness, death, even cannibalism.

Here, from the noted historian Marshall W. Fishwick, is the dramatic story of Jamestown and the struggle of its leader, Captain John Smith, who, with the help of Pocahontas, daughter of the Algonquian chief Powhatan, succeeded against all odds.

Автор: Coleman
Название: Johnstown`s Flood of 1889
ISBN: 3319952153 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319952154
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Описание: This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic documents about the investigation, and applying new LiDAR, GPS, and hydraulic studies to solve the mystery - what caused the Great Flood of 1889?

Автор: Neil M. Coleman
Название: Johnstown`s Flood of 1889
ISBN: 3030069958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030069957
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Описание: Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889. The tragic loss of more than 2200 lives was preventable; the initial investigation of the flood was hijacked, delayed, and distorted by powerful members of the industrial elite. This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic documents about the investigation, and applying new LiDAR, GPS, and hydraulic studies to solve the mystery – what caused the Great Flood of 1889? The book includes a notable chapter on the “sister” of the South Fork Dam, “The Forgotten Dam” at Hollidaysburg, PA.

Автор: McLaurin John J., McLaurin J. J.
Название: The Story of Johnstown: Its Early Settlement, Rise and Progress, Industrial Growth, and Appalling Flood on May 31st, 1889
ISBN: 0271064528 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271064529
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Описание: A history of Johnstown, published in 1890, from the colonial period to the 1889 flood, when the South Fork Dam on the Conemaugh River failed. Features a journalistic account of the flood.

Автор: Potter Jennifer
Название: Jamestown Brides
ISBN: 178239916X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782399162
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Описание: The extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.

Автор: Anthony Arlidge
Название: The Lawyers Who Made America: From Jamestown to the White House
ISBN: 1509906363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509906369
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Описание: No other nation's creation, both politically and socially, owes such a debt to lawyers as the United States of America. This book traces the story of that creation through the human lives of those who played important parts in it: amongst others, of English lawyers who established the form of the original colonies; of the Founding Fathers, who declared independence and created a Constitution; of Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Justices of the Supreme Court and finally Barack Obama. Even Richard Nixon features, if only as a reminder that even the President is subject to the law. Anthony Arlidge combines his wide legal experience and engaging writing style to produce a book that will enthrall lawyers and laymen alike, giving a timely reminder of the importance of the rule of law to American democracy. Subject: Legal History, Constitutional & Administrative Law, Legal Education]

Автор: Tyler Lyon Gardiner
Название: The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River
ISBN: 1298645964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781298645968
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Автор: Mack Jonathan
Название: A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
ISBN: 164160090X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641600903
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Описание: Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda during a voyage to resupply England's troubled colony at Jamestown, in present-day Virginia. A lesser known passenger was Stephen Hopkins. During the ten months the Sea Venture passengers were marooned on Bermuda, Hopkins was charged with trying to incite a mutiny and condemned to die, only to have his sentence commuted moments before it was to be carried out. In 1620, Hopkins signed on to another colonial venture, joining a group of religious radicals on the Mayflower. The Pilgrims encountered their own tempest, a furor that started when they anchored off Cape Cod and lasted for their first twelve months in the New World. Disease and sickness stole nearly half their number, and their first contacts with the indigenous Americans were contentious. The entire enterprise hung in the balance, and it was during these trials that Hopkins became one of the expedition's leaders, playing a vital role in bridging the divide of suspicion between the English immigrants and their native neighbors.

Автор: Roper L. H.
Название: The English Empire in America, 1602-1658: Beyond Jamestown
ISBN: 1138663808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138663800
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Описание: This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century.

Автор: Michael A. Beatty
Название: The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution
ISBN: 0786473835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786473830
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Описание: For about a century and a half after they arrived from England, America`s first permanent colonists considered themselves to be English. They were proud of their heritage and loyal to their country. England`s royal family truly was the royal family of America--until the era of the American Revolution, when the colonies fought for their independence from England and its rulers.