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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven BielPublish date:6/1/2003Pages:300
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393316766ISBN-10:393316769UPC:9780393316766Book Category:Transportation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ships & Shipbuilding, United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:History, 20th CenturySize:8.44 x 5.46 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCVGKY2TTH

Protestant sermons used theTitanic to condemn the budding consumer society ("We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster."). African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich. A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an "older kind of disaster in which people had time to die." An ever-increasing number of Titanic buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines ("Titanic Baby Found Alive!" the Weekly World News declares) and a figure of everyday speech ("rearranging deck chairs . . ."), the Titanic disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America.

Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393316766ISBN-10:393316769UPC:9780393316766Book Category:Transportation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ships & Shipbuilding, United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:History, 20th CenturySize:8.44 x 5.46 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCVGKY2TTH
Biel, Steven: - Steven Biel is the executive director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and a senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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