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Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Updated Edition)
Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Updated Edition) | Steven Biel
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Explores how the Titanic disaster became an icon for a variety of groups, including suffragists and their opponents, radicals, reformers, capitalists, critics of technology, racists, and xenophobes.
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Forget #TaxDay - It's #TitanicRemembranceDay in homage to the unsinkable ship that went down on April 15, 1912. For a while, I was obsessed with Titanica and even taught a college composition course based on Titanic texts. Best read in my collection is Biel's cultural history - I learned some used the "women and children first" maxim to "prove" that women were weaker than men & thus didn't deserve the right to vote!

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