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POLITICAL HEAT.(Brief Article)
In the first week of July, 1995, a strong high-pressure air mass developed over the plains of the Southwest and began moving slowly eastward toward Chicago. Illinois usually gets its warm summer air from the Gulf of Mexico, and the air coming off the ocean is relatively temperate. But this was a blast of western air that had been baked in the desert ovens of West Texas and New Mexico. It was hot, bringing temperatures in excess of a hundred degrees, and, because the preceding two months had been very wet in the Midwest and the ground was damp, the air steadily picked up moisture as it moved across the farmlands east of the Rockies. Ordinarily, this would not have been a ...
- REVIEW: Heat Wave; A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books Turner, Caroline March 10, 2003 700+ words
...Hurricane Andrew. 'Heat Wave; A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago' aims to examine...the event. 'Heat Wave; A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago' spans over 300...surrounding the Chicago heat wave in 1995, and examines...
- Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Social Forces Wagner-Pacifici, Robin June 1, 2003 700+ words
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. By Eric Klinenberg...hot summer week in Chicago in July of 1995, Heat Wave, by Eric Klinenberg...intersection with Heat Wave is theoretically...modernist city of Chicago that the success...
- Anthropology and history.(Heat wave: a social autopsy of disaster in...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Iris, M. December 1, 2003 700+ words
...history KLINENBERG, ERIC. Heat wave: a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago. xvii, 305 pp., tables...flight 800 in 1996, the Chicago heat-wave disaster is relatively...catastrophe such as the Chicago heat wave calls for an explanation...
- Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. .(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research Hermer, Joe December 22, 2002 700+ words
...Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy...Disaster in Chicago. Chicago...people. In Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy...Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg...deaths of so many Chicago residents...context of the heat wave, from how the...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of International Affairs Haver, Katherine March 22, 2006 700+ words
HEAT WAVE: A SOCIAL AUTOPSY OF DISASTER IN CHICAGO Eric Klinenberg (Chicago...328 pages. In examining the Chicago heat wave that killed an estimated 739...other natural disasters, the Chicago heat wave "expressed and exposed conditions...
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- Magazine article from: Weatherwise Gedzelman, Stanley David May 1, 2003 700+ words
...AVAILABLE FROM: University of Chicago Press, www.press.uchicago...sociological analysis of the 1995 Chicago heat wave as a needless, excessive tragedy...000 deaths per year. The 1995 heat wave in Chicago was one of the worst natural...
- HEAT WAVE KEEPS GRIP ON MUCH OF U.S. CHICAGO TRYING TO AVOID REPEAT OF DEADLY...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 31, 1999 700+ words
...As an unrelenting heat wave kept its grip on...the East Coast - Chicago officials deployed...deaths. The current heat wave has been linked to...afternoon heat. Chicago had no formal heat...mounting during the 1995 heat wave, when temperatures...
- `Murder by Public Policy'.(Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago)
- Magazine article from: The Nation di Leonardo, Micaela September 2, 2002 700+ words
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. By Eric Klinenberg. Chicago. 305 pp. $27.50. I am writing this review in the midst of a Chicago heat wave, almost exactly seven years after the heat...
