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Tennessee Tragedies
2012
Overview
A one-of-a-kind reference book,
Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of
disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the
past several centuries. Intended for both general readers and
emergency management professionals, it covers natural disasters
such as floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes; technological
events such as explosions, transportation wrecks, and structure
fires; and societal incidents including labor strikes,
political violence, lynchings, and other hate crimes. At the
center of the book are descriptive accounts of 150 of the
state’s most severe events. These range from smallpox
epidemics in the eighteenth century to the epic floods of
1936–37, from the
Sultana riverboat disaster of 1865 (the worst inland
marine accident in U.S. history) to the 1968 assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Included as well are stories of
plane crashes, train wrecks, droughts, economic panics, and
race riots. An extensive chronology provides further details on
more than 900 incidents, the most complete listing ever
compiled for a single state. The book’s introduction
examines topics that include our fascination with such
tragedies; major causes of death, injury, and destruction; and
the daunting problems of producing accurate accountings of a
disaster’s effects, whether in numbers of dead and
injured or of economic impact. Among the other features are a
comprehensive glossary that defines various technical terms and
concepts and tables illustrating earthquake, drought, disease,
and tornado intensity scales. A work of great historical
interest that brings together for the first time an impressive
array of information,
Tennessee Tragedies will prove exceptionally useful
for those who must respond to inevitable future disasters.
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press,The University of Tennessee Press
Subject
ISBN
9781572338418, 1572338415
