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The government of emergency : vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Collier, Stephen J. (Author), Lakoff, Andrew, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Princeton studies in culture and technology.
Subjects:
Emergency management > United States > History > 20th century.
Disaster relief > United States > History > 20th century.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface : a vulnerable world
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : the new normalcy
  • Part I. crisis government in the great depression and world war II
  • Vital systems
  • Emergency government
  • Part II. demobilization and remobilization
  • Vulnerability
  • Preparedness
  • Part III. cold war planning for national survival
  • Enacting catastrophe
  • Survival resources
  • Epilogue : from nuclear war to climate change.