Heat Wave

Paperback • 2015 • English

Heat Wave

By Eric Klinenberg

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About the book

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full week - and leave more than seven hundred people dead. Rather than view these deaths as the inevitable consequence of natural disaster, sociologist Eric Klinenberg decided to figure out why so many people - and, specifically, so many elderly, poor, and isolated people - died, and to identify the socia...Show more

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ISBN

9780226276182

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Heat Wave

Format

Paperback

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