THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DISASTER IN HALIFAX, CANADA, AND THE BEGINNING OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INTO DISASTERS
Abstract
The explosion of a ship laden with explosives at Halifax, Canada, in 1917, and its consequences and disaster management by society, are a well-known milestone throughout the world. It denotes the beginning of social science research into disasters. The calamity was the subject of the first comprehensive social science research study, written by Samuel Henry Prince (1920): Catastrophe and Social Change. This book is considered the primary work in the area of disaster management. It is only appropriate that the disaster, the book, and the author are also made better-known in Slovenia.
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