American disasters: 201 calamities that shook the nation/ (Record no. 153779)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780816077359 |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.341 |
| Item number | CAM/A |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Camphell, Ballard C. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | American disasters: 201 calamities that shook the nation/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Ballard C. Campbell |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Checkmark, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii, 461 p. |
| Dimensions | 28 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Acknowledgments<br/>Introduction<br/>Contributors 1492 Christopher Columbus's First<br/>Voyage<br/>1492 Decimation of Native Americans<br/>by European Diseases 1590 Lost Colony of Roanoke<br/>1609-1610 Starving Time at Jamestown<br/>1620 First Winter at Plymouth<br/>1622 Massacre at Jamestown<br/>1675 King Philip's War<br/>1676 Bacon's Rebellion<br/>1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials<br/>1704 Deerfield Massacre 1721 Smallpox Epidemic<br/>1739 Stono Rebellion<br/>1741 New York City Fires and Slave<br/>"Conspiracy"<br/>1752 Great South Carolina Hurricane<br/>1755 Exile of the Acadians<br/>1755 New England Earthquake<br/>1765 Stamp Act Crisis<br/>1770 Boston Massacre<br/>1771 North Carolina Regulator<br/>Movement<br/>1774 Coercive Acts<br/>1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775 Smallpox Epidemic in the<br/>American Revolution 1777 Deprivation at Valley Forge 1780 The "Dark Day" Forest Fires<br/>1785 Economic Crisis<br/>1786 Shays's Rebellion 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic<br/>1800-1801 Presidential Election Crisis<br/>1807 Impressment Crisis<br/>1811 New Madrid Earthquakes<br/>1814 Burning of Washington, D.C.<br/>1814 Hartford Convention<br/>1816 The Year without a Summer 1819 Financial Panic and Depression 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Plot<br/>1824-1825 Presidential Election Deadlock<br/>1831 Nat Turner Slave Rebellion<br/>1832 Cholera Epidemic<br/>1833 Nullification Crisis<br/>1834 Ursuline Convent Riot and Fire<br/>1836 Battle of the Alamo<br/>1837 Financial Panic and Depression<br/>1838 Explosion of the Moselle<br/>1838 Trail of Tears<br/>1842 Dorr Rebellion<br/>1844 Philadelphia Riots 1844 ■ Millerites and the End of the World 1845 Irish Famine and Immigration<br/>1846 The Donner Party<br/>1850 Compromise of 1850<br/>1853 Sinking of the San Francisco<br/>1854 Wreck of the Arctic 1857 Financial Panic and Depression<br/>1859 John Brown's Raid 1860 Wreck of the Lady Elgin<br/>1860 Secession Crisis<br/>1861 Battle of Bull Run 1863 New York City Di aft Riots<br/>1864 Sand Creek Massacre<br/>1865 Assassination of President Lincoln 1865 Explosion of the Sultana 1868 Impeachment of President Johnson<br/>1869 Avondale Mine Disaster<br/>1871 Revere Railroad Accident 1871 Peshtigo Fire 1871 Great Chicago Fire<br/>1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal 1872 Great Epizootic<br/>1872 Great Boston Fire 1873 Financial Panic and Depression<br/>1873 Locust Invasions across the<br/>Great Plains 1874 Mill River Dam Collapse 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Ashtabula Bridge Collapse<br/>1876-1877 Contested Presidential Election<br/>1877 Great Railroad Strike<br/>1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic<br/>1881 Assassination of President Garfield<br/>1886 Haymarket Square Incident<br/>1888 Blizzard of '88<br/>1889 Johnstown Flood<br/>AMERICAN RED CROSS<br/>1892 Lynching Tragedy<br/>1892 Homestead Strike<br/>1893 Financial Panic and Depression<br/>1893 Exterminating the Buffalo<br/>1894 Pullman Strike<br/>1898 Explosion of the USS Maine<br/>1898 Sinking of the Portland<br/>1899 Automobile Fatalities 1900 Outbreak of Bubonic Plague<br/>PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE<br/>1900 Galveston Hurricane<br/>1901 Assassination of President<br/>McKinley 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire<br/>1904 General Slocum Disaster 1904 American Chestnut Tree Blight<br/>1905 Insurance Industry Scandal<br/>1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire<br/>1906 Typhoid Mary<br/>1907 Financial Panic and Depression f908 Springfield Race Riot 1909 Cherry Mine Fire 1910 Wellington Avalanche and Railway<br/>Disaster 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire<br/>1912 "Bread and Roses" Strike<br/>1912 Sinking of the Titanic<br/>SOS<br/>1914 Ludlow Massacre<br/>1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1915 Capsizing of the Eastland 1918 Influenza Pandemic<br/>1919<br/>1919<br/>1919<br/>1919<br/>1920<br/>1920<br/>1926<br/>1927<br/>1928<br/>1929<br/>1930<br/>1931<br/>1931<br/>1932<br/>1933<br/>1935<br/>1935<br/>1937<br/>1937<br/>1937<br/>1937<br/>1937<br/>1938<br/>1938<br/>1940<br/>1941<br/>1942<br/>1943<br/>1944<br/>1945<br/>1945<br/>1947<br/>1948<br/>1950<br/>1952<br/>1953<br/>1956<br/>1957<br/>1961<br/>1962<br/>1962<br/>Great Molasses Spill Bombing of Attorney General's House<br/>Chicago Race Riot<br/>Black Sox Baseball Scandal<br/>Ponzi Scheme<br/>Wall Street Bombing<br/>Miami Hurricane<br/>Mississippi River Flood St. Francis Dam Collapse<br/>St. Valentine's Day Massacre<br/>Demise of the American Elm Tree<br/>Scottsboro Case<br/>Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster<br/>Lindbergh Kidnapping<br/>The Great Depression<br/>Dust Bowl<br/>Florida Hurricane<br/>New London School Explosion<br/>Hindenburg Disaster<br/>Memorial Day Massacre<br/>Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy<br/>FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION<br/>Great New England Hurricane<br/>War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast<br/>Panic<br/>Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows<br/>Bridge<br/>Attack on Pearl Harbor<br/>Cocoanut Grove Fire<br/>Los Angeles Smog Cloud<br/>Hartford Circus Fire Airplane Crash into the Empire State Building Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan Grandcamp Explosion Donora Smog Tragedy<br/>Retreat from the ^ alu<br/>Polio Epidemic<br/>CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND<br/>PREVENTIDN<br/>Worcester Tornailo<br/>Grand Canyon A i rplane Crash<br/>Little Rock Schod Desegregation<br/>Crisis<br/>Bay of Pigs Invasion<br/>Thalidomide Tra edy<br/>Silent Spring and ' mvironmental<br/>Degradation<br/>ibk'..<br/>1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Assassination of President Kenned) 1964 Cigarettes and Lung Cancer 1964 Freedom Summer Civil Rights<br/>Murders 1965 Selma Voting Rights Demonstratior<br/>1965 Watts Riot<br/>1967 Urban Riots<br/>1968 Tet Offensive<br/>1968 My Lai Massacre<br/>1968 Assassination of Martin Luther<br/>King, Jr. 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy<br/>1968 Democratic Convention and Riot 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill 1969 Depletion of New England Fisheries 1972 Rapid City Flood<br/>NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 1972 Watergate Scandal<br/>1973 Oil Embargo<br/>1976 Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak 1977 New York City Power Failure<br/>1978 Blizzard of '78<br/>1978 Love Canal Crisis<br/>ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY<br/>1979 Accident at Three Mile Island<br/>1979 Crash of American Airlines<br/>Flight 191 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis<br/>1980 Mariel Boatlift Exodus 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens 1980 Deadly Heat Wave<br/>1981 AIDS Epidemic<br/>1983 Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks 1984 Chemical Explosion in Bhopal 1986 Shuttle Challenger Explosion<br/>1988 Yellowstone Fires 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake 1992 Los Angeles Riot<br/>1992 Hurricane Andrew 1992 Silicone Breast Implant Crisis 1993 World Trade Center Bombing 1993 Superstorm<br/>1993 Raid on Branch Davidian<br/>Compound 1993 Mississippi River Flood 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing<br/>1995 Federal Government Shutdown 1996 Explosion of TWA Flight 800 1999 Columbine School Shooting<br/>2000 Presidential Election Stalemate<br/>2001 9/11 Terrorist Attack<br/>2001 Enron Scandal<br/>2002 Catholic Church Sex Abuse<br/>Scandal<br/>2003 Shuttle Columbia Disaster<br/>2005 Hurricane Katrina<br/>FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY<br/>Appendix A Disaster Movies<br/>Appendix B "Worst of" Lists<br/>Bibliography<br/>Index |
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| Keyword | Disasters -- United States -- History. |
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| Keyword | Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States. |
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| Keyword | Crises -- United States -- History. |
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| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 363.341 CAM/A | P08560 | 10/07/2018 | 10/07/2018 | General Books |