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The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials app...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Collier, Stephen J. (Autor), Lakoff, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology ; 25
Temas:
Disaster relief > United States > History > 20th century.
Emergency management > United States > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Act of God.
Aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Authoritarianism.
Cataclysm (Dragonlance).
Catastrophe modeling.
Catastrophism.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Civil defense.
Climate change.
Climate risk.
Collective security.
Conscription.
Constitution.
Constitutional dictatorship.
Contemporary society.
Contexts.
Continuity of government.
Critical infrastructure protection.
Critical infrastructure.
Decree.
Defense Production Act.
Demography.
Dictatorship.
Disaster.
Economics.
Emergency Preparedness.
Emergency communication system.
Emergency management.
Enemy Objectives Unit.
Energy crisis.
Executive order.
Federal Civil Defense Administration.
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Federal government of the United States.
Financial crisis.
Foreign policy.
General Services Administration.
Governing (magazine).
Government Office.
Government agency.
Homeland security.
Humanitarian aid.
Impose.
Infrastructure.
Institution.
Internal security.
Legislation.
Lend-Lease.
Liberal democracy.
Martial law.
Medical emergency.
Mercantilism.
Militarization.
Military history.
Military strategy.
Mobilization.
Modernity.
National Security Strategy (United States).
National security.
Natural disaster.
Nuclear warfare.
Office for Emergency Management.
Office of Defense Mobilization.
Office of Emergency Management.
Office of Emergency Planning (Ireland).
Paul Rabinow.
Planning.
Politics.
Preparedness.
Problematization.
Progressivism.
Provision (contracting).
Public administration.
Reflexive modernization.
Reinsurance.
Risk management.
Scenario planning.
Securitization.
Security agency.
Separation of powers.
Sovereignty.
State of emergency.
Strategic National Stockpile.
Strategic intelligence.
Supply (economics).
Technology.
Terrorism.
Total war.
Ulrich Beck.
United States Department of Homeland Security.
Vulnerability (computing).
Vulnerability assessment.
Vulnerability.
War Powers Resolution.
War Production Board.
War economy.
Weimar Republic.
Westphalian sovereignty.
World War I.
World War II.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE A Vulnerable World
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION The New Normalcy
  • PART I Crisis Government in the Great Depression and World War II
  • 1 Vital Systems
  • 2 Emergency Government
  • PART II Demobilization and Remobilization
  • 3 Vulnerability
  • 4 Preparedness
  • PART III Cold War Planning for National Survival
  • 5 Enacting Catastrophe
  • 6 Survival Resources
  • EPILOGUE From Nuclear War to Climate Change
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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