Disaster! : : Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey / / Alan A. Siegel.
By every measure, Hurricane Sandy was a disaster of epic proportions. The deadliest storm to strike the East Coast since Hurricane Diane in 1955, Sandy killed thirty-seven people and caused more than $30 billion in damages in 2012 to New Jersey alone. But earlier centuries experienced their own cata...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rivergate Regionals Collection
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 24 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Fires
- 2. Steamboat Disasters
- 3. Train Wrecks
- 4. Shipwrecks
- 5. Natural Disasters
- Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
- About the Author