BIBFRAME Work

Title

Rhetoric and public memory in the science of disaster

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Grossman, Jeremy R. (author)

Subject

• Language and history--United States (LCSH)
• Natural disasters--United States--Historiography (LCSH)
• Technical writing--Social aspects--United States (LCSH)
• Collective memory--United States (LCSH)
• Natural disasters--Simulation methods--Social aspects--United States (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Case studies (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Classification

• LCC: GB5010 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• DDC: 303.48/50973 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

Summary

"This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

On models and memory -- Physical scale modeling and the rhetoric of sublimation -- Standard project disasters and rhetorical transposition -- Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina and the rhetoric of "the big one" -- Predictions of/and the past.

Authorized Access Point

Grossman, Jeremy R. Rhetoric and public memory in the science of disaster

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:47:06.591717+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23637512

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc