Pre-modern disaster politics: combating catastrophe in the 1950s
In this essay, I investigate how the U.S. responded to disasters during the first decade after passage of the Federal Disaster Act of 1950. I examine mid-twentieth century disaster politics in relation to Martha Derthick's observations about federalism during the Eisenhower era, drawing on a ch...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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