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Down with the Old Canoe : A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster Steven Biel
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Quantity Available: |
Only one in stock, order soon |
Condition: |
Like New |
ISBN: |
9780393316766 |
Country/Region of Manufacture: |
United States |
Modified Item: |
No |
Country: |
USA |
Title: |
Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the |
Type: |
Illustrated Book |
Author: |
Steven Biel |
Era: |
1990s |
Format: |
Trade Paperback |
Publisher: |
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w. |
Age Level: |
Adults, Young Adults |
Publication Year: |
2003 |
Language: |
English |
Topic: |
Social History |
Genre: |
Transportation, History |
Number of Pages: |
320 Pages |
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More than a week ago |
Item number: |
920395217 |
Item description
A softbound edition of DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE TITANIC DISASTER. Written by Steven Biel and published in 1996, this is a "First published as a Norton paperback 1997" edition in fine+ condition.
"Brimming over with wit and insight...Fresh and fascinating." ?Dan Rather
Everyone from suffragists to their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets found moral and cultural lessons in the sinking of the Titanic.
In a new edition that both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the disaster and elaborates, in a revised afterword, on the ship's continued impact on the public imagination (evidenced by the Titanic mania evoked by James Cameron's 1997 film), Steven Biel explores the Titanic in all its complexity and contradictions. 16 pages of black-and-white photographs and illustrations
Review:
The largest movable object ever constructed by man when it was launched, the supposedly unsinkable Titanic has inspired novels, songs, poetry, movies, and even a mysterious black stoker named Shine who never existed on the actual ship. Steven Biel traces all these avatars and explores the social and cultural myths that the disaster gave rise to--and destroyed. The recent attempts to raise the Titanic's wreckage have demonstrated that the myths have not lost their power.
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