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  ▼a  9781469676234
  ▼q  (cloth ;
  ▼q  alk. paper)

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  ▼a  9781469677231
  ▼q  (paperback ;
  ▼q  alk. paper)

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  ▼z  9781469676241
  ▼q  (ebook)

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  ▼a  211070
  ▼c  211070
  ▼d  211070

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  ▼a  HV555.U6

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  ▼a  HV555.U6
  ▼b  I72

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  ▼a  Catastrophic diplomacy :
  ▼b  US foreign disaster assistance in the American century /
  ▼d  Julia F. Irwin

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  ▼a  Chapel Hill :
  ▼b  The University of North Carolina Press,
  ▼c  [2024].

• 300

  ▼a  pages cm

• 504

  ▼a  Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  ▼a  The politics of disaster, the politics of aid -- From Venezuela to Martinique, 1812-1902 -- Casting the three pillars, 1902-1908 -- Relief and rebuilding in Italy, 1908-1909 -- Cementing the three pillars, 1909-1916 -- Floods, earthquakes, and the Great War, 1917-1918 -- The possibilities and limits of catastrophic diplomacy in Japan, 1919-1924 -- The sun never sets, 1924-1931 -- Navigating the Great Depression and playing the good neighbor, 1931-1939 -- Recasting the pillars of US foreign disaster assistance, 1939-1947 -- New mechanisms, new motivations, 1948-1954 -- Stumbling toward standardization, 1955-1960 -- Disaster assistance in the decade of development, 1961-1963 -- Mr. Catastrophe goes to Washington, 1964-1976.

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  ▼a  "Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the mid-1970s, it examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world. Focusing on US responses to sudden disasters caused by earthquakes, tropical storms, and floods-crises commonly known as 'natural disasters'-historian Julia F. Irwin highlights the complex and messy politics of emergency humanitarian relief. Deftly weaving together diplomatic, environmental, military, and humanitarian histories, Irwin tracks the rise of US disaster aid as a tool of foreign policy, showing how and why the US foreign policy establishment first began contributing aid to survivors of international catastrophes. While the book focuses mainly on bilateral assistance efforts, it also assesses the broader international context in which the US government and its auxiliaries operated, situating their humanitarian responses against the aid efforts of other nations, empires, and international organizations. At its most fundamental level, Catastrophic Diplomacy demonstrates the importance of international disaster assistance-and humanitarian aid more broadly-to US foreign affairs"--
  ▼c  Provided by publisher.

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  ▼a  Disaster relief
  ▼z  United States
  ▼x  History
  ▼y  20th century.

• 650

  ▼a  Disaster relief
  ▼x  Government policy
  ▼z  United States.

• 650

  ▼a  Humanitarian assistance
  ▼z  United States
  ▼x  History
  ▼y  20th century.

• 650

  ▼a  Humanitarian assistance, American
  ▼z  Foreign countries
  ▼x  History
  ▼y  20th century.

• 650

  ▼a  HISTORY / World
  ▼2  bisacsh

• 650

  ▼a  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief
  ▼2  bisacsh

• 651

  ▼a  United States
  ▼x  Foreign relations
  ▼x  History
  ▼y  20th century.

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