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"In the middle decades of the twentieth century, in the wake of economic depression, war, and in the midst of the Cold War, an array of technical experts and government officials developed a substantial body of expertise to contain and manage the disruptions to American society caused by unprecedented threats. Today the tools invented by these mid-twentieth century administrative reformers are largely taken for granted, assimilated into the everyday workings of government. As Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff argue in this book, the American government's current practices of disaster management can be traced back to this era. Collier and Lakoff argue that an understanding of the history of this initial formation of the "emergency state" is essential to an appreciation of the distinctive ways that the U.S. government deals with crises and emergencies-or fails to deal with them-today. This book focuses on historical episodes in emergency or disaster planning and management. Some of these episodes are well-known and have often been studied, while others are little-remembered today. The significance of these planners and managers is not that they were responsible for momentous technical innovations or that all their schemes were realized successfully. Their true significance lies in the fact that they formulated a way of understanding and governing emergencies that has come to be taken for granted"--

Disaster relief --- Emergency management --- History --- History --- Act of God. --- Aftermath of the September 11 attacks. --- Authoritarianism. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Catastrophe modeling. --- Catastrophism. --- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. --- Civil defense. --- Climate change. --- Climate risk. --- Collective security. --- Conscription. --- Constitution. --- Constitutional dictatorship. --- Contemporary society. --- Contexts. --- Continuity of government. --- Critical infrastructure protection. --- Critical infrastructure. --- Decree. --- Defense Production Act. --- Demography. --- Dictatorship. --- Disaster. --- Economics. --- Emergency Preparedness. --- Emergency communication system. --- Emergency management. --- Enemy Objectives Unit. --- Energy crisis. --- Executive order. --- Federal Civil Defense Administration. --- Federal Emergency Management Agency. --- Federal government of the United States. --- Financial crisis. --- Foreign policy. --- General Services Administration. --- Governing (magazine). --- Government Office. --- Government agency. --- Homeland security. --- Humanitarian aid. --- Impose. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Internal security. --- Legislation. --- Lend-Lease. --- Liberal democracy. --- Martial law. --- Medical emergency. --- Mercantilism. --- Militarization. --- Military history. --- Military strategy. --- Mobilization. --- Modernity. --- National Security Strategy (United States). --- National security. --- Natural disaster. --- Nuclear warfare. --- Office for Emergency Management. --- Office of Defense Mobilization. --- Office of Emergency Management. --- Office of Emergency Planning (Ireland). --- Paul Rabinow. --- Planning. --- Politics. --- Preparedness. --- Problematization. --- Progressivism. --- Provision (contracting). --- Public administration. --- Reflexive modernization. --- Reinsurance. --- Risk management. --- Scenario planning. --- Securitization. --- Security agency. --- Separation of powers. --- Sovereignty. --- State of emergency. --- Strategic National Stockpile. --- Strategic intelligence. --- Supply (economics). --- Technology. --- Terrorism. --- Total war. --- Ulrich Beck. --- United States Department of Homeland Security. --- Vulnerability (computing). --- Vulnerability assessment. --- Vulnerability. --- War Powers Resolution. --- War Production Board. --- War economy. --- Weimar Republic. --- Westphalian sovereignty. --- World War I. --- World War II.