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Author: Kerry Smith
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9781512825374
ISBN 10: 1512825379
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 27 February 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""An authoritative study that documents far more than Japan’s chimerical quest to master earthquake prediction. Kerry Smith beautifully illustrates how seismic vulnerability and risk, science and speculation, personal ambition and politics, anticipation and fear, have all shaped Japan’s modern approach to earthquakes and thus the nation we know today. Innovative, imaginative, and provocative, Predicting Disasters is a thoroughly compelling read."" * J. Charles Schencking, author of The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan * ""Kerry Smith masterfully narrates the ways in which Japanese seismologists’ promise of earthquake prediction have played out against the geological reality and socioeconomic conditions of Japan since the late nineteenth century. Predicting Disasters is not only an excellent history of Japanese seismology but also a vivid testimony to the fact that paradigm shifts in science can be a gradual and arduous process."" * Yoshikuni Igarashi, author of Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism *
"""An authoritative study that documents far more than Japan’s chimerical quest to master earthquake prediction. Kerry Smith beautifully illustrates how seismic vulnerability and risk, science and speculation, personal ambition and politics, anticipation and fear, have all shaped Japan’s modern approach to earthquakes and thus the nation we know today. Innovative, imaginative, and provocative, Predicting Disasters is a thoroughly compelling read."" * J. Charles Schencking, author of The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan * ""Kerry Smith masterfully narrates the ways in which Japanese seismologists’ promise of earthquake prediction have played out against the geological reality and socioeconomic conditions of Japan since the late nineteenth century. Predicting Disasters is not only an excellent history of Japanese seismology but also a vivid testimony to the fact that paradigm shifts in science can be a gradual and arduous process."" * Yoshikuni Igarashi, author of Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism *"
Author Information
Kerry Smith is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Brown University.
