The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America
- ISBN-10
- 0812222466
- ISBN-13
- 9780812222463
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-02-21
- Publisher
- City in the Twenty-First Centu
- Author
- Scott Gabriel Knowles
Description
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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- 2012-07-02
- 360 pages
- Ebook
- University of Pennsylvania Press
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