Product Description: Catastrophic scenarios control our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath...read more

Furnishes an engaging and eye-opening dissection of a watershed year in American history, 1973, which was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the oil crisis, and the Watergate hearings, as told through newspapers, magazines, novels, films, TV shows, and music of that time. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups—railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators—Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness...read more