The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America
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Main Author: Knowles, Scott Gabriel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press 2011
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Item Description:Biographical note: 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
Main 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (360 S.)
ISBN:9780812207996
DOI:10.9783/9780812207996

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