The disaster experts : mastering risk in modern America /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2011.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.