The disaster experts : mastering risk in modern America

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This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts--specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable--revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Knowles, Scott Gabriel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Edition:1st ed.
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Subjects:
Hazard mitigation > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Risk assessment > United States > History > 20th century.
Disaster relief > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Disasters > United States > History > 20th century.
Emergency management > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Emergency management > United States > History > 20th century.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t CONTENTS --  |t ABBREVIATIONS --  |t INTRODUCTION --  |t 1. The Devil's Privilege --  |t 2. Reforming Fire --  |t 3. The Invisible Screen of Safety --  |t 4. Ten to Twenty Million Killed, Tops --  |t 5. What Is a Disaster? --  |t 6. A Nation of Hazards --  |t NOTES --  |t INDEX --  |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
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