Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-316) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake -- Pushing prediction : the establishment of the national earthquake hazards reduction -- Program -- The regulatory state apparatus in action.
