Originally published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1942.

Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; One: The Influence of Calamities Upon our Mind; 1: How Calamities Influence Our Affective and Emotional Life; Two: How Calamities Affect our Cognitive Processes, Desires and Volitions; Two: The Influence of Calamities Upon Our Behavior and Vital Processes; Three: How Famine Influences Our Behavior; Four: How Pestilence, War, and Revolution Influence Our Behavior; Five: How Calamities Influence The Vital Processes-Death, Birth, and Marriage Rates and Social Selection; Three: The Influence of Calamities Upon Social Mobility and Organization; Six: Migration, Mobility, and Disruption of Social Institutions; Seven: The Influence of Calamities Upon Political, Economic, and Social Organization; Eight: The Influence of Calamities Upon the Economic Standard of Living; Four: The Influence of Calamities Upon Sociocultural Life; Nine: Two General Effects of Calamities Upon Sociocultural Life; Ten: How Calamities Affect the Religious and Ethical Life of Society; Eleven: Calamities and Ethico-Religious Progress; Twelve: Sinners and Saints in Calamity; Thirteen: The Influence of Calamities Upon Science and Technology; Fourteen: Influence of Calamities Upon The Fine Arts; Fifteen: Dynamics of Ideologies in Calamity; Five: Causes and Remedies of Calamities; Sixteen: Causes of Calamities; Seventeen: The Way Out of Calamities; Eighteen: A Glance Into The Future