Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Condition. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 305 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992-in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history. Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a "social autopsy," examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; American History; United States; 1990s; sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0226443221. ISBN/EAN: 9780226443225. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8659. . 9780226443225