In Jonathan Bergman’s article\u00a0Disaster: A Useful Category\u00a0of Historical A<\/em>nalysis<\/i> he explains the field of disaster history as being very divise and not totally formed into a cohesive study yet. \u00a0He writes about the history of the subject how it went from disasters being events ordained from a \u00a0deity to more rectly them being recognized as social events. \u00a0He discusses about how historians, although they don’t believe they were sent by deities, they still argue about if they should be categorized as natural events or events that are apart of culture and social history. \u00a0Bergman comes to the conclusion that it is most likely a combination of both and should be looked from a natural and human viewpoint to totally understand them. I agree with Bergman, \u00a0and to me this argument reminds me of the old saying, “if a tree falls in the woods and there’s no one around, does it make a sound?” If a hurricane hits an unpopulated area of the world, is it still such a disaster? If a totally man created event like a mass shooting or war happens, is it a disaster? I think there isn’t a concrete answer for either statement, but it is discussing the argument that was brought up in Koppes’ article on the Dust Bowl summed up by\u00a0GRAVITY21<\/a>\u00a0saying that Worster (a person Koppes brought into the argument) believed the Dust Bowl to be a creation of humans brought about by their greed. Later Cunfer would write a piece saying that the dust bowl would have naturally happened regardless of man, that it was an event solely of nature. I think one thing that is important in both of these pieces is for each historian to define exactly what a disaster is and offer arguments for why their interpretation is the most correct, because it’s obvious that humans have\u00a0some influence on nature as nature has an influence on humans. There should be arguments made for how much of the natural world has an influence and how much of the human world has an influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Jonathan Bergman’s article\u00a0Disaster: A Useful Category\u00a0of Historical Analysis he explains the field of disaster history as being very divise and not totally formed into a cohesive study yet. \u00a0He writes about the history of the subject how it went from disasters being events ordained from a \u00a0deity to more rectly them being recognized as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}