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Author Knowles, Scott Gabriel

Title The disaster experts : mastering risk in modern America / Scott Gabriel Knowles
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations
Series The City in the Twenty-First Century
City in the twenty-first century book series.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Devil's Privilege -- 2. Reforming Fire -- 3. The Invisible Screen of Safety -- 4. Ten to Twenty Million Killed, Tops -- 5. What Is a Disaster? -- 6. A Nation of Hazards -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject 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
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Disaster relief -- Research
Disasters
Emergency management
Emergency management -- Research
Risk assessment
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011023603
ISBN 9780812207996
0812207998
0812222466
9780812222463