The Disaster Experts - Mastering Risk in Modern America

Informationen zum Autor Scott Gabriel Knowles is Associate Professor of History and Politics at Drexel College and Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Pennoni Honors College. He is also editor of Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext Scott Gabriel Knowles is Associate Professor of History and Politics at Drexel College and Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry at Pennoni Honors College. He is also editor of Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City! also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of 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 Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Scott Gabriel Knowles, KNOWLES SCOTT GABRIEL
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2013
• EAN: 9780812222463
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2246-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 230 mm x 26 mm
• Series: City in the Twenty-First Centu; The City in the Twenty-first Century; The City in the Twenty-First Century; City in the Twenty-First Centu
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration