Disaster Assistance Legislation, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Flood Control ... 91-2, on H.R. 17518, and Related Bills
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Public Works |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Public Works |
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Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1258 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Legislative hearings |
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Author | : United States. Department of the Interior. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Insurance, Nuclear hazards |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
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Total Pages | : 974 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
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Author | : David A. Moss |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2004-10-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674016095 |
One of the most important functions of government—risk management—is one of the least well understood. Moving beyond familiar public functions—spending, taxation, and regulation—Moss spotlights government's pivotal role as a risk manager, revealing the nature and extent of this function, which touches almost every aspect of economic life.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works |
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Total Pages | : 1006 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Public works |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control |
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Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
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Author | : Marian Moser Jones |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2013-01-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1421408236 |
The iconic relief organization’s activities over a half century of history, through wars, epidemics, and other disasters: “Well-researched . . . fascinating.” —Julia F. Irwin, Bulletin of the History of Medicine In dark skirts and bloodied boots, Clara Barton fearlessly ventured onto Civil War battlefields to tend to wounded soldiers. She later worked with civilians in Europe during the Franco-Prussian War, lobbied legislators to ratify the Geneva conventions, and founded and ran the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal tells the story of the charitable organization from its start in 1881, through its humanitarian aid during wars, natural disasters, and the Depression, to its relief efforts of the 1930s. Marian Moser Jones illustrates the tension between the organization’s founding principles of humanity and neutrality and the political, economic, and moral pressures that sometimes caused it to favor one group at the expense of another. This book tells the stories of: • U.S. natural disasters such as the Jacksonville yellow fever epidemic of 1888, the Sea Islands hurricane of 1893, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake • crises abroad, including the 1892 Russian famine and the Armenian massacres of 1895–96 • efforts to help civilians affected by the civil war in Cuba • power struggles within the American Red Cross leadership and subsequent alliances with the American government • the organization’s expansion during World War I • race riots and massacres in East St. Louis, Chicago, and Tulsa between 1917 and 1921 • help for African American and white Southerners after the Mississippi flood of 1927 • relief projects during the Dust Bowl and after the New Deal An epilogue relates the history of the American Red Cross since the beginning of World War II and illuminates the organization’s current practices and international reputation.