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Author: Ted Steinberg (Professor of History and Law, Professor of History and Law, Case Western Reserve University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 23.40cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 15.60cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780195309683
ISBN 10: 0195309685
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 August 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<br> A sobering lesson in humanity's vulnerability to extreme climatic events, especially the impoverished farmer and the urban poor. --The Los Angeles Times Book Review<p><br> Steinberg has an unabashedly political agenda in this work, but that does not interfere with him making a powerful point concerning the economics of disaster preparation and recovery...This is an insightful work that raises serious questions about who really directs our philosophy of disaster preparedness. --Booklist<p><br> Powerfully argued and forcefully written.... Good old-fashioned, hard-headed scholarship, which confirms that some of the most savage critics of capitalism in US academia today are environmental historians. --The Times Literary Supplement<p><br>
"""A sobering lesson in humanity's vulnerability to extreme climatic events, especially the impoverished farmer and the urban poor.""--The Los Angeles Times Book Review ""Steinberg has an unabashedly political agenda in this work, but that does not interfere with him making a powerful point concerning the economics of disaster preparation and recovery....This is an insightful work that raises serious questions about who really directs our philosophy of disaster preparedness.""--Booklist ""Powerfully argued and forcefully written....Good old-fashioned, hard-headed scholarship, which confirms that some of the most savage critics of capitalism in US academia today are environmental historians.""--The Times Literary Supplement"
A sobering lesson in humanity's vulnerability to extreme climatic events, especially the impoverished farmer and the urban poor. --The Los Angeles Times Book Review Steinberg has an unabashedly political agenda in this work, but that does not interfere with him making a powerful point concerning the economics of disaster preparation and recovery...This is an insightful work that raises serious questions about who really directs our philosophy of disaster preparedness. --Booklist Powerfully argued and forcefully written.... Good old-fashioned, hard-headed scholarship, which confirms that some of the most savage critics of capitalism in US academia today are environmental historians. --The Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
Ted Steinberg teaches history at Case Western Reserve University and is the author of Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History and American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn. His essays have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Natural History, and The New York Times.
