Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster

The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb. "The following pages [are] the result of an observational study of the social phenomena attendant upon one of the greatest catastrophes in history—the Halifax Disaster. "[This book is not] a history of the disaster. It is rather, as the title suggests, an intensive study of two social orders, between which stands a great catastrophe, and its thesis is the place of catastrophe in social change. "The account