Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [ Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation and non-standard punctuation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Some of the entries in the index are not in alphabetical order; they have been kept as printed. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. ] CATASTROPHE AND SOCIAL CHANGE BASED UPON A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE HALIFAX DISASTER BY SAMUEL HENRY PRINCE, M. A. (Tor.) SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK 1920 Halifax is not a large city but there are those who love it who would choose to dwell therein before all cities beneath the skies To All Such CITIZENS, PAR EXCELLENCE, I COUNT IT AN HONOR TO DEDICATE THESE LINES 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 idea of the work was suggested while carrying out a civic community study of the disaster city under the direction of Professor F. H. Giddings of Columbia University. 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. The writer has also tried faithfully to record any important contribution which Social Economy was able to make in the direction of systematic rehabilitation. Special reference is made to private initiative and governmental control in emergency relief. This monograph is in no sense, however, a relief survey. Its chief value to the literature of relief will lie in its bearing upon predictable social movements in great emergencies. Nor is the book a history of the disaster. It is rather, as the title suggests, an intensive study of two social orders, between which stands a great catastrophe, and its thesis is the place of catastrophe in social change.