{"product_id":"down-with-the-old-canoe-a-cultural-history-of-the-titanic-disaster-0393316769","title":"Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393316769\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Biel, Steven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon. \"I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing more-just Titanic,\" wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor. Everyone found ammunition in the Titanic-suffragists and their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets.Protestant sermons used the Titanic to condemn the budding consumer society (\"We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster.\"). African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich. A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an \"older kind of disaster in which people had time to die.\" An ever-increasing number of Titanic buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines (\"Titanic Baby Found Alive!\" the Weekly World News declares) and a figure of everyday speech (\"rearranging deck chairs . . .\"), the Titanic disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855828025632,"sku":"NEW0393316769","price":13.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/719JvOGb4rL.jpg?v=1781542092","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/down-with-the-old-canoe-a-cultural-history-of-the-titanic-disaster-0393316769","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}