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Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
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9780393316766
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Publisher
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W. W. Norton & Company
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Subject
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Politics & Government, History
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Binding
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PAPERBACK
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Pages
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320
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Year
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2003
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An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon."I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing morex2014;just Titanic," wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor. Everyone found ammunition in the Titanicx2014;suffragists and 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. Protestant sermons used the Titanic to condemn the budding consumer society ("We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster."). African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich. A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an "older kind of disaster in which people had time to die." An ever-increasing number of Titanic buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines ("TitanicBaby Found Alive!" the Weekly World News declares) and a figure of everyday speech ("rearranging deck chairs . . ."), the Titanic disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America.
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