James M. Kendra, Tricia Wachtendorf

American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

James Kendra is Director of the Disaster Research Center and Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Tricia Wachtendorf is Associate Director of the Disaster Research Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781439908204
• ISBN-10: 1439908206
• Artikelnr.: 43921997

Autorenporträt

James Kendra is Director of the Disaster Research Center and Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Tricia Wachtendorf is Associate Director of the Disaster Research Center and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1 Making Sense of Disaster
2 We Did What We Had to Do: Identity, Ethos, and Community in Action
3 Making Sense and Taking Action
4 Breaking Rules, Making Rules: The Paradox of Disaster
5 Blending Art and Science, or Mindful Muddling: Toward a New Concept of
Disaster Management
Acknowledgments
References
Index