Andrew Morris tells the story of how Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969, changed the way the nation responded to disasters—drawing civil rights activists, conservative white southerners, liberal Congressional Democrats, and President Richard Nixon into a reconfiguration of the nation’s disaster policy.
Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, Living with Risk in the Late Roman World demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks that they perceived.
Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Kerry Smith
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512825374
Pub Date: February 2024
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and the first to show why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan’s efforts to prepare for a dangerous future ever since.
Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis
Joshua Moses
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812225136
Pub Date: March 2022
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
In Experts in the Age of Anxiety, Joshua Moses chronicles the rise of disaster-related spiritual expertise in the years following the attacks of 9/11 and provides a lens through which to understand the historical dimensions of disaster-related trauma, its treatment, and the ways that therapeutic and spiritual practices imply politics.
