Disasters : natural and man-made catastrophes through the centuries / Brenda Z. Guiberson.
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New York :
Henry Holt and Co.,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Smallpox : the parasitic horror
- The Great Chicago Fire
- Johnstown flood
- San Francisco shaking
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- Titanic
- Blue skin and bloody sputum : pandemic flu of 1918
- No water, no jobs, no relief : the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
- Mammoth shakes and monster waves, destruction in 12 countries
- Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orleans.