Disaster!: Stories of Destruction and Death in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

by Alan A. Siegel

By every measure, Hurricane Sandy was a disaster of epic proportions. The deadliest storm to strike the East Coast since Hurricane Diane in 1955, Sandy killed thirty-seven people and caused more than $30 billion in damages in 2012 to New Jersey alone. But earlier centuries experienced their own catastrophes. In Disaster , Alan A. Siegel brings readers face-to-face with twenty-eight of the deadliest natural and human-caused calamities to strike New...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081356459X
• ISBN13: 9780813564593
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 to Postsecondary