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A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Solnit, Rebecca
Publisher: PenguinYear Published: 2010
Pages: 368pp ISBN: 978-0-14-311807-7
Library of Congress Number: HV553.S59 2009 Dewey: 303.48'5--dc22
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Table of Contents:
Prelude: Falling Together
I. A Millennial Good Fellowship: The San Francisco Earthquake
The Mizpah Cafe
Pauline Jacobson's Joy
General Funston's Fear
William James's Moral Equivalents
Dorothy Day's Other Loves
II. Halifax to Hollywood: The Great Debate
A Tale of Two Princes: The Halifax Explosion and After
From the Blitz and the Bomb to Vietnam
Hobbes in Hollywood, or the Few Versus the Many
III. Carnival and Revolution: Mexico City's Earthquake
Power from Below
Losing the Mandate of Heaven
Standing on Top of Golden Hours
IV. The City Transfigured: New York in Grief and Glory
Mutual Aid in the Marketplace
The Need to Help
Nine Hundred and Eleven Questions
V. New Orleans: Common Grounds and Killers
What Difference Would It Make?
Murderers
Love and Lifeboats
Beloved Community
Epilogue: The Doorway in The Ruins
Gratitude
Notes
Index
Subject Headings
- Altruism
- Anarchism
- Bombing
- Buddhism
- Civil Society
- Collective Joy
- Communities/Cities
- Community Building
- Disaster Recovery
- Disasters
- Earthquakes
- Elite Panic
- Elites
- Emotions
- Empowerment
- Fear
- Fear/Coping with
- Fire
- Floods/Flooding
- Human Nature
- Human Potential
- Human Values
- Hurricanes
- Joy
- Looting
- Mutual Aid
- Pain of Others
- Privatization
- Race Relations/Racism
- Racism
- Religion
- Religion & Society
- Revolution
- Revolutionary Moments
- September 11 (9/11)
- Solidarity
- Theft
- Utopias
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