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Down with the Old Canoe : A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

ISBN: 9780393340808 | 0393340805
Edition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 3/17/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Everyone from suffragists to their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets found moral and cultural lessons in the sinking of the Titanic. In a new edition that both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the disaster and elaborates, in a revised afterword, on the ship's continued impact on the public imagination (evidenced by the Titanic mania evoked by James Cameron'... MORE
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Meanings
Foreword: Nature Jeers At Our Follyp. 3
April 1912p. 9
The Rule of the Sea and Landp. 23
Mammonp. 59
Interword: A Noble Structure of Enduring Stonep. 85
Unknown and Unsungp. 97
Memories
A Night To Rememberp. 135
Enthusiastsp. 167
Mission To Destinyp. 197
Afterword: Titanic Maniap. 221
List of Abbreviationsp. 235
Notesp. 239
Acknowledgmentsp. 281
Indexp. 285
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Steven Biel is the executive director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and a senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University.


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