Catastrophe and Social Change, Based on a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disater

First published in 1920. According to the Preface: "The following pages embody the result of an observational study of the social phenomena attendant upon one of the greatest catastrophies in history--the Halifax Disaster... The account deals first with the shock and disintegration as the writer observed it. Individual and group reactions are next examined in the light of sociological theory. The chapters on Social Organization are an effort to picture that process as it actually occurred.”