The Halifax Explosion: The Apocalypse of Samuel H. Prince
On December 6th, 1917, the young curate at Saint Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, was a witness to the greatest manmade explosion prior to the atom bombs. Samuel Prince was no stranger to death: quite apart from being a priest in a city at war, he had spent weeks at sea with a crew, retrieving bodies from the Titanic and somewtimes performing the 'burial for the dead' there, in the North Atlantic. .Unlike the other witnesses, however, Prince was also a budding social scientist. Samuel Prince saw these disasters with a kind of double vision, as a clergyman and as a sociologist. Prince wrote his doctoral dissertation at Columbia on the Halifax…
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- ISBN: 978-1-988908-13-7
- EAN: 9781988908137
- Produktnummer: 31201585
- Verlag: Underhill Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 293 KB
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