Down with the Old Canoe

Overview

"Brimming over with wit and insight…Fresh and fascinating." —Dan RatherEveryone 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.

Details

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2012-02-28

Pages

330

Language

EN

Categories

History / General, History / United States / 20th Century, History / Modern / 20th Century / General, History / Social History, Juvenile Nonfiction / Sports & Recreation / General, Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, Technology & Engineering / Civil / General, Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History

ISBN-13

9780393340808