Download or read book Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (Updated Edition) written by Steven Biel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.